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UC Merced research aims to use biochar to reduce methane emissions from dairies

1 March, 2019

MERCED, California – It's a smell we're all too familiar with in the Central Valley. Manure from cows add a significant amount of greenhouse gases to our air. Thanks to a multimillion-dollar grant, a team at UC Merced is working to reduce those emissions with resources already in the region.

The $3,088,188 grant comes from the California Strategic Growth Council's Climate Change Research Program. To be awarded the grant, the project needs to contribute to a healthier California, as well as have a component of disadvantaged community engagement.

The project at UC Merced is fine-tuning the production and use of biochar, specifically in mixing it with manure and soil to reduce methane emissions from dairies. Biochar is the byproduct of processed biomass, like a tree or woodchips.

The Central Valley is home to a lot of resources optimal for biochar, like of the dead trees.

"There is a problem that needs to be tackled in a way that we can actually take advantage of the resource," Gerardo Diaz, associate professor in UC Merced's School of Engineering, said. Diaz is also the project's principal investigator.

While the aim of the research is reducing methane emissions, the team will also be looking at the feasibility of creating a mobile biochar production unit. There's one in Ballico, however, it's stationary and can't move. The project will also explore other environmental impacts of biochar, like its effect on soil's nutrients.

In total, six professors from UC Merced's School of Engineering and School of Natural Sciences are working on this project. Catherine Keske, who teaches in the School of Engineering, particularly is exploring the economic feasibility of the project.

"Our results could have very immediate impact in the state of California. We could potentially open up a sector," said Keske.

Most importantly, the goal of the research is to improve living conditions in the Central Valley.

"The big and important part is to make sure there's a benefit directly for low-income and disadvantaged communities," said Diaz.

This is a three-year project and is going to focus first on Merced and Madera counties, before spreading to other parts of the region.

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Effect of pyrolysis conditions on the total contents of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in biochars …

1 March, 2019

The interest of using biochar, the solid byproduct from organic waste pyrolysis, as soil conditioner is significantly increasing. Nevertheless, persistent organic pollutants, such as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), are formed during pyrolysis due to the incomplete combustion of organic matter. Consequently, these pollutants may enter the environment when biochar is incorporated into soil and cause adverse ecological effects. In this study, we examined the content of the 16 United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) PAHs in biochars produced from rice husk, wood, wheat and sewage sludge residues using three different pyrolytic reactors and temperatures (400, 500 and 600 °C). The total concentration of PAHs (∑PAH) ranged from 799 to 6364 μg kg−1, being naphthalene, phenanthrene and anthracene the most abundant PAHs in all the biochars. The maximum amount of PAHs was observed for the rice husk biochar produced in the batch reactor at 400 °C, which decreased with increasing temperature. The ∑PAH value of the wood biochar produced via traditional kilns doubled compared with the wood biochar produced using the other pyrolytic reactors (5330 μg kg−1 in Kiln; 2737 μg kg−1 in batch and 1942 μg kg−1 in the rotary reactor). Looking for a more reliable risk assessment of the potential exposure of PAHs in biochar, the total toxic equivalent concentrations (TTEC) of the 14 produced biochars were calculated. When comparing the same feedstock and temperature, TTEC values indicated that the rotary reactor produced the safest biochars. In contrast, the biochars produced using the batch reactor at 400 and 500 °C have the greatest hazard potential. Our results provide valuable information on the potential risk of biochar application for human and animal health, as well as for the environment due to PAHs contamination.

Effect of using powdered biochar and surfactant on desorption and biodegradability of …

1 March, 2019

The present study aimed to investigate the relationship between the desorption and biodegradability of phenanthrene sorbed to biochars by employing two approaches that may change the desorption and biodegradability: the use of powdered biochars and nonionic surfactants. Biochars derived from two feedstocks (rice husk and sewage sludge; pyrolyzed at 500 ⁰C but showing different aromaticity) were used. When the biochars were powdered to obtain particles < 250 μm<math><mi is=”true”>μ</mi><mi is=”true”>m</mi></math>, the mass fractions of the desorbed phenanthrene at ˜80 days ( fdes<math><msub is=”true”><mi is=”true”>f</mi><mrow is=”true”><mi is=”true”>d</mi><mi is=”true”>e</mi><mi is=”true”>s</mi></mrow></msub></math> ) increased from 0.303 to 0.431 for sewage sludge biochars. On the other hand, fdes<math><msub is=”true”><mi is=”true”>f</mi><mrow is=”true”><mi is=”true”>d</mi><mi is=”true”>e</mi><mi is=”true”>s</mi></mrow></msub></math> for rice husk biochars remained virtually unchanged (from 0.264 to 0.255). The mass fractions of the biodegraded phenanthrene ( fbio)<math><msub is=”true”><mi is=”true”>f</mi><mrow is=”true”><mi is=”true”>b</mi><mi is=”true”>i</mi><mi is=”true”>o</mi></mrow></msub><mo stretchy=”false” is=”true”>)</mo></math> increased from 0.191 to 0.306 for rice husk biochars and from 0.077 to 0.168 for sewage sludge biochars. When a nonionic surfactant was added at the sub-critical micelle concentration (CMC), fbio<math><msub is=”true”><mi is=”true”>f</mi><mrow is=”true”><mi is=”true”>b</mi><mi is=”true”>i</mi><mi is=”true”>o</mi></mrow></msub></math> increased by 4.7 times and 8.3 times for rice husk and sewage sludge biochars. For both types of biochars, fbio<math><msub is=”true”><mi is=”true”>f</mi><mrow is=”true”><mi is=”true”>b</mi><mi is=”true”>i</mi><mi is=”true”>o</mi></mrow></msub></math> was larger than fdes<math><msub is=”true”><mi is=”true”>f</mi><mrow is=”true”><mi is=”true”>d</mi><mi is=”true”>e</mi><mi is=”true”>s</mi></mrow></msub></math> when the surfactant was added. This study suggests that the addition of nonionic surfactants can be considered if the inhibition of microbial activity is of concern in soils and sediments treated by biochar.

The magic of Biochar building Bricks

1 March, 2019

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Moving forward: From dead timber to agricultural amendment

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Biochar is the solid product of pyrolysis, designed to be used for environmental management. IBI defines biochar as: A solid material obtained from thermochemical conversion of biomass in an oxygen-limited environment. Biochar is charcoal used as a soil amendment. Like most charcoal, biochar is made from biomass via pyrolysis. Biochar can increase soil fertility of acidic soils (low pH soils), increase agricultural productivity, and provide protection against some foliar and soil-borne diseases. Furthermore, biochar reduces pressure on forests. Biochar is a stable solid, rich in carbon, and can endure in soil for thousands of years. The global Biochar market will reach xxx Million USD in 2018 and CAGR xx% 2018-2023. The report begins from overview of Industry Chain structure, and describes industry environment, then analyses market size and forecast of Biochar by product, region and application, in addition, this report introduces market competition situation among the vendors and company profile, besides, market price analysis and value chain features are covered in this report.

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We first arrived at Ödevata Countryside Hotels. We were warmly welcomed by Magnus and Malin, the owners, to this comfy B&B/hotel in the middle of the forest. They are a family run business on the countryside. With snow everywhere, since it is still winter, it appeared magical and romantic. Next day during breakfast, we found out that Magnus and Malin produce some vegetables, meat, and eggs for the B&B/hotel. The honey is from the neighboring farm. They are developing sustainable tourism as more guests are concerned with sustainability. By the way, it was a delicious breakfast.

Later, they took time to tell us more about sustainable living at Ödevata Countryside Hotels. They are deeply convinced about the need of changing our lifestyles and they actively work on it. In the end, they wanted the government to establish more sustainability policies. They started to ask themselves how to establish sustainable living, for them and for their business. They decided to focus on two main factors: reduce as much as possible CO2 emission, and reuse everything. So sustainable farming became a way for them to live sustainable on their land.

Ödevata Countryside Hotels produces biochar for the heating system that they built. This was the first time we heard about it. So we immediately asked about how it contributes to sustainable living. “I heard about biochar through one of my friends. He used to produce coal, but he wasn’t satisfied about it because the process was emitting a lot of CO2. They searched for a cleaner alternative, and when they discovered biochar, they stopped producing charcoal.” Malin explained. They believe waste could also be useful and that’s why they continuously look for new developments in sustainability policies. This guided them when they created their biochar heating system.

The heating system is easier to understand than we thought. Biochar making process is similar to charcoal. Both are made by heating wood in low oxygen environment, so it releases hydrogen and carbon monoxide etc. as smoke. The smoke is then directed back to heat more wood and into the cooled char making charcoal. For biochar production, none of the smoke is directed back into the cooled char. Instead Magnus and Malin burned the extra smoke to produce heat for the camp.

“We also give courses on how to make biochar.” said Malin. “We want to give guests inspiration to do the same (find ways for sustainable living)”. She explained that some guests from big cities, like us, don’t even know or ever thought about alternative heating systems.

Biochar is originally used as a valuable soil amendment. It is the perfect basis for sustainable farming. Malin is already using it in the soil and she told us it has yielded amazing results.

They invested in sustainable farming as a part of constant improvement to their business and to live sustainably on their land. To enable sustainable farming and living, we got a tour of the new greenhouse. In it they will cultivate vegetables using aquaponics system. They showed us where they will set up pools with fishes. The water from the pool is used to feed the plants. The plants would “clean” the water so it can be fed back into the system. “You can use the same water for 15 years” said Malin. “We might not know much, but we know there’s no future without sustainability policies in place.” Magnus added.

We learned from Malin and Magnus that sustainable living is more than recycling and reducing waste. It is also about forward active thinking and constantly finding ways to improve.

Malin recommended us to go to Hemma På Hult next. She is working with them on sustainable living and pushing for better sustainability policies. So after a couple of wonderful days, we were heading North to the area of the great Lake Vättern. Our next stop was at Hemma på Hult.

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The appearance and contamination of phenicol antibiotics (PABs), such as chloramphenicol (CAP), florfenicol (FF) and thiamphenicol (TAP), in aqueous solutions has aroused public concerns in recent years due to its negative impact on human health and ecological system. In this study, a 3D porous-structured biochar aerogel (3D-PBA) with large BET surface area (2607 m2/g) was synthesized, and applied on PABs removal. Notably, to the best of our knowledge, among all the reported carbon-based adsorbents, 3D-PBA shows the record high adsorption capacity toward target PABs. The adsorption capacity for CAP, FF and TAP was measured to be 786.1, 751.5 and 691.9 mg/g at 298 K, respectively. The Langmuir-Freundlich isotherm model can better describe the adsorption isotherm data. Specifically, 2 mg/L PABs can be completely removed within 10 min, and over 90% PABs can be removed within 10 min even when the initial concentration was as high as 40 mg/L. Adsorption mechanism of PABs on 3D-PBA was fully determined using XPS and FTIR. As a result, the pore-filling effect, π-π/n-π EDA interaction and electrostatic interaction played a crucial role, and it also accompany with hydrogen bonding interaction. Furthermore, the synergistic action of hydrophobic interaction also acts as indispensable role during the adsorption process. Overall, the 3D-PBA can act as an efficient candidate for ultrafast PABs removal.

Application of biochar from agro-industrial waste in solid-phase extraction for the determination of …

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Market Segmentation by Technology Used for Its Production as Fast & Intermediate Pyrolysis, Slow Pyrolysis, Gasification And Microwave Pyrolysis

Biochar market can also be segmented on the basis of technology used for its production as fast & intermediate pyrolysis, slow pyrolysis, gasification and microwave pyrolysis. Biochar is an inert residue created by heating organic material in a low oxygen environment during the process called pyrolysis. Heating organic material without oxygen in a process called pyrolysis thermo chemically transforms biomass into a stable char residue that resists decomposition, while also producing oil and gas. Example of biomass consist forest residues like branches, wood chips and yard clippings. Pyrolysis leaves behind gases and oils that can be combusted to create energy. The characteristic and proportion of oil, gas and char produced can be determined by temperature, feedstock and time of exposure in pyrolysis. This char portion created by the pyrolysis process is called biochar which is used for agricultural amendment.

One of the major drivers augmenting the global Biochar market is that it improves soil fertility. Biochar also help soil to retain its moisture content and improve nutrient availability and thus enhance soil productivity. Biochar could provide contribution to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions. It sequesters carbon while generating renewable energy and reducing GHG emissions from waste decomposition and soils. Additionally, Biochar can also be used for capturing zinc, nitrogen, phosphorous and other metals in waste water systems.

Global biochar market is in its fledging stage and its segmentation based on various regions is done as North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America and Rest of the world. Europe promotes development of biochar industry on a large scale whereas in the US and Asia-Pacific regions the market is in its infancy. Biochar market in rest of the regions is restricted to medium or small scale production also there is hundreds of pilot projects planned to take at large scale in future.

Iron-based magnetic materials are deemed to be promising catalysts for various catalytic reactions and can be recovered conveniently by an external magnetic field. MnFe2O4 nanoparticle and MnFe2O4/bio-char composite with different bio-char contents were prepared to activate hydrogen peroxide for the degradation of tetracycline (TC). The catalysts were characterized by SEM, BET, XRD, FTIR, VSM and XPS. The results indicated that MnFe2O4 had a spherical shape and was successfully loaded onto the surface of bio-char. The introduction of bio-char effectively suppressed the aggregation of MnFe2O4 and drastically increased the specific surface area. Both MnFe2O4 and MnFe2O4/bio-char composite can be separated easily by an external magnetic field. Using 1:2 composite as heterogeneous photo-Fenton catalyst obtained a degradation of 95% through visible light irradiation of 40 mg L−1solution at natural pH (pH = 5.5) in the presence of 100 mmol L−1 H2O2 for 2 h. Free radical quenching experiment and the ESR results confirm that hydroxyl radicals play the main role for TC degradation. XPS measurements show that both Fe and Mn ions simultaneously participate in the activation of H2O2. The bio-char not only restrains the aggregation of MnFe2O4 leading to the improved removal efficiency of TC, but also has side effects by consuming hydroxyl radicals. By cyclic degradation experiments, the performance of MnFe2O4/bio-char composite is stable and almost unchanged, and the leaching metal ions of both Fe and Mn are neglectful (both below 0.2 mg L−1). Besides, steady performance of MnFe2O4/bio-char catalyst to remove TC from tap water and river water has been certified.

Phosphorus removal from eutrophic water using modified biochar.

Mass production of biochar and use it as a soil amendment. Sequesters carbon in

> Biochar is charcoal used as a soil amendment. Biochar is a stable solid, rich in carbon, and can endure in soil for thousands of years.[1] Like most charcoal, biochar is made from biomass via pyrolysis. Biochar is under investigation as an approach to carbon sequestration,[1] as it has the potential to help mitigate climate change.[2][3][4] It results in processes related to pyrogenic carbon capture and storage (PyCCS).[5] Independently, biochar can increase soil fertility of acidic soils (low pH soils), increase agricultural productivity, and provide protection against some foliar and soil-borne diseases.[6]

> Researchers have estimated that sustainable use of biocharring could reduce the global net emissions of carbon dioxide (CO 2), methane, and nitrous oxide by up to 1.8 Pg CO 2-C equivalent (CO 2-Ce) per year (12% of current anthropogenic CO 2-Ce emissions; 1 Pg=1 Gt), and total net emissions over the course of the next century by 130 Pg CO 2-Ce, without endangering food security, habitat, or soil conservation.

It feels like every other week I read about one approach which has the potential to save us from climate change, if scaled correctly. Suberin rich food crops. Autonomous ships that produce artificial clouds. Biochar. Painting things white. Olivine rock weathering. Greening the Sahara. I don't believe any of these solutions alone is going to save the planet, but surely doing several in concert would help

Three year study on biochar & bamboo in Indonesia

The preparation processes of efficient photocatalyst containing defect regulation and heterostructure construction are usually complicated and difficult to control at present, besides, the catalyst agglomeration in solution further limits their application. There is an urgent need for designing a potentially cheap, efficient, sustainable and easy-prepared nanocomposite to improve photocatalytic performance. In present study, the facile synthesized porous graphitic carbon with microtubular structure, high graphitization degree and abundant porosity demonstrates an outstanding advantage of excellent conductivity and facilitated mass transport. Such porous graphite biochar (PGBC) self-assembled with g-MoS2 nanosheets is observed by the optimized band gap, enhanced visible light harvesting, accelerated charge transfer and efficient photo-generated carrier’s separation. Considering the favorable specific surface area and pore distribution of PGBC for avoiding nanosheet agglomeration, the as-prepared composites display quite high efficiency for tetracycline hydrochloride (TC) removal based on the synergistic action of the desirable absorption and photocatalytic capability. Mechanism exploration indicates that surface adsorption is mainly dominated by electrostatic interaction, hydrogen bonding, π-π stacking and pore-filling, and hole (h+) and hydroxyl radical (·OH) are the predominant active species responsible for TC degradation. Furthermore, the nanocomposites possess advisable stability performance for TC removal in contaminated river water, further providing an underlying insight for establishing high-efficient and easy-prepared photocatalysts in practical contaminated water remediation.

Biochar soaks up ammonia pollution, study shows

4 March, 2019

New book touts benefits of biochar to reverse climate change

4 March, 2019

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Biochar soaks up ammonia pollution, study shows

4 March, 2019

Rachel Hestrin, Ph.D. ’18, and collaborators from Jimma University visit a facility built to conduct compost experiments in Ethiopia.

A new Cornell-led study shows that pyrogenic matter, also known as biochar, is chock-full of potential as a fertilizer because of its ability to soak up nitrogen from the air pollutant ammonia. And it does so in a surprising way: through a chemical reaction that forms covalent bonds far stronger than those found in electrostatic interactions.

“As nitrogen-rich materials like animal manure break down, a lot of nitrogen can volatilize into the atmosphere as ammonia gas,” she said. “That represents a huge loss of a valuable nutrient from the agricultural system. It could also affect biodiversity if that ammonia is deposited in natural ecosystems and alters nutrient availability there.”

The project has its origins in Ethiopia, where researchers led by Johannes Lehmann, the Liberty Hyde Bailey Professor of Soil Science, have been working to improve smallholder agriculture by recycling farm and municipal resources to make fertilizers that are high in phosphorus or nitrogen.

“Fertilizers are a lot less available in East Africa, and there are more competing demands for organic resources like manure, straw and wood compared to in the U.S.,” said Hestrin, a doctoral student in Lehmann’s lab at the time and now a postdoctoral researcher at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

“We saw an opportunity to convert underutilized sources of biomass or agricultural waste products into fertilizers,” she said, “but we knew that it would be important to use these resources as efficiently as possible.”

With support from the Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future’s partnership with CARE USA, the team proposed to capture nitrogen that would otherwise be lost from compost by adding biochar – a solid, charcoal-like material formed by heating biomass in the absence of oxygen.

“Biochar production is a fundamental process in nature,” said Lehmann, senior author on the paper. “You have to consider it to understand natural nitrogen cycles and carbon cycles, and you can learn something important about how the natural world functions. You can also adapt it and modify it to manage some pressing sustainability issues.”

In order to better understand how biochar could retain nitrogen, Hestrin began to change the chemical composition of its surface, simulating how the biochar would change over time in the natural environment. Then she exposed the biochar to ammonia and measured how much nitrogen it retained after exposure.

She and Lehmann found that the biochar soaks the ammonia right up.

To gain additional insight into how nitrogen from the ammonia gas interacts with biochar under natural conditions, Hestrin took these samples to the Canadian Light Source at the University of Saskatchewan.

“Through analyses enabled by the particle accelerator, we found there were actually covalent bonds forming between the nitrogen from the ammonia and the carbon in the biochar,” Hestrin said. “Those covalent bonds are a lot stronger than the electrostatic interactions that we had assumed were responsible for nitrogen retention. The way that nitrogen is retained matters because it will affect whether the nitrogen will be readily available to plants or lost into the air or water.”

Lehmann considers biochar compost versatile enough to benefit a wide range of stakeholders. For farmers, it can help conserve nitrogen and improve productivity, as well as limit odor pollution from manure piles and lower the environmental impact farms can have on local water quality. It can help businesses recycle nutrients and make valuable fertilizer rather than leaving behind waste.

And for earth systems scientists and climate modelers, it is a potentially overlooked process by which nitrogen emitted through mineralization and fires is recaptured in terrestrial ecosystems, a natural sink.

“One way that agricultural nitrogen management is connected to climate change is through the conversion of fertilizer into nitrous oxide, a potent greenhouse gas,” Hestrin said. “Anything we can do to improve nitrogen delivery to plants and reduce the inefficiencies in nitrogen fertilizer application – whether it’s adding too much or adding it at a time that’s not optimized for plant demand – has the potential to reduce nitrous oxide emissions into the atmosphere.”

Other contributors were Dorisel Torres-Rojas, Ph.D. ’18, and researchers from Canadian Light Source, NMR Facility and Spectroscopy Lab, and the University of Adelaide, Australia.

David Nutt is managing editor of the Atkinson Center.

Could biochar help combat climate change?

4 March, 2019

Forest managers frustrated by declining timber markets see a promising use for the wood they’d like to pull out of fire-prone landscapes — charcoal for farmland — if they can make the sales pitch stick.

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Scope of the Biochar Fertilizer Market Report: This report studies the Remote Infrastructure Management (RIM) market status and outlook of Global and major regions, from angles of players, countries, product types and end industries; this report analyzes the top players in global market, and splits the Remote Infrastructure Management (RIM) market by product type and applications/end industries., North America is the major contributor to the global market due to its inclination toward innovative technologies and the rapid adoption of RIM services among enterprises across verticals. The APAC region is expected to grow at the highest CAGR, owing to the growing digitization across enterprises and adoption of RIM services among major verticals., The global Remote Infrastructure Management (RIM) market is valued at xx million USD in 2017 and is expected to reach xx million USD by the end of 2023, growing at a CAGR of xx% between 2017 and 2023., The Asia-Pacific will occupy for more market share in following years, especially in China, also fast growing India and Southeast Asia regions., North America, especially The United States, will still play an important role which cannot be ignored. Any changes from United States might affect the development trend of Remote Infrastructure Management (RIM)., Europe also play important roles in global market, with market size of xx million USD in 2017 and will be xx million USD in 2023, with a CAGR of xx%.,2

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The global biochar market size was worth 26.60 million USD in 2018 and is expected to reach 40.38 kilo tons with a CAGR of 18% between 2018 and 2025. Rising usage of soil enhancement coupled with the higher demand for organic food have up surged the market growth of global biochar industry. The stringent rules and regulations adapted by government in order for waste management, preservation of soil along with increasing investment in the bio-fuels sector has soared overall market growth.

Growing organic food consumption across the globe and biochar’s ability to enhance plant growth as well as fertility of soil are the factors that may propel the growth of the global biochar market over the next couple of years. Biochar is a key element in soil improvement owing to its ability to discard all sand poisonous and pollutants elements from the soil has helped biochar to gain importance in agriculture field. Moreover, it stops soil leeching, fertilizer runoff and also benefits in maintaining the level of moisture in the soil. In the contemporary scenario, synthetic as well as other bio-based fertilizers are likely to influence the agricultural sector positively. However, various initiatives in order to develop the awareness about the product advantages and its use will further impact the growth of the global biochar industry; this trend is expected to be followed in the forthcoming years. All these factors will reinforce the notable opportunities and increase overall global biochar market share.

The global biochar industry has regional segmentation which covers North America, Asia-pacific, South America, Middle East, and Africa. India, China, Rest of Asia-Pacific are included under the Asia-Pacific market. North America covers the Canada, U.S. and Mexico. France, UK, Germany, and Rest of Europe are analyzed under the European market.

Focusing on volume and value, North America serves the most demand which escalates their global biochar market share. Higher demand of carbon sequestration and soil amendment has been identified as the key factors driving the North America market growth. Europe has continuous and constant demand for biochar and is exhibited to display significant growth. Asia-Pacific will experience exponential growth in the biofuel which will propel the market growth. Emerging nations such as China, Japan and India are expected to have major global biochar market share in the coming forecast period. Presence of abundant biochar producers are from Japan and China, which makes biochar cost-effective for them as compared to other nations. Latin America is predicted to offer growth to biochar market in the coming few years. Middle East & Africa is anticipated to boost the global biochar market at a steady rate.

Feedstock, geography, technology and application are the key segments considered in the global biochar market. Feedstock includes forestry waste, animal manure, agriculture waste and biomass plantation. Based on technology, the market is further divided into continuous batch pyrolysis kiln, pyrolysis kiln, gasifier and cookstove, microwave pyrolysis, and other. On the basis of application, the market is bifurcated into agriculture, gardening and household.

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Global Biochar Market Report 2019

4 March, 2019

Report includes data about consumer perspective, comprehensive analysis, statistics, market share, company performances (Stocks), historical analysis 2012 to 2017, market forecast 2019 to 2025 in terms of volume, revenue, YOY growth rate, and CAGR. The report also provides detailed segmentation on the basis of product type, applications and regional segmentation. The regional segment is further bifurcated on country level.

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Market Research Store provides Exclusive Report on Global Biochar Fertilizer Market. This Market Intelligence Report Focuses only on Key Strategic Developments(new product launch, M&A, agreements, collaborations, partnerships and regional growth of the leading competitors), Market Features (including revenue, price, capacity, capacity utilization rate, gross, production, production rate, consumption, import/export, supply/demand, cost, market share, CAGR and gross margin) and Analytical Tools (includes the accurately studied and assessed data of the key industry players and their scope in the market by means of a number of analytical tools). Furthermore, this report also helps to figure out forthcoming investment, investment return analysis, SWOT analysis and business opportunities in the market. The global Biochar Fertilizer Market was valued at XX.XX USD billion in 2018 and is expected to reach a value of XX.XX USD billion by 2025 at a CAGR of xx% over the forecast period 2019–2025.

This report also includes the cost and profit status of Biochar Fertilizer and marketing status, Market growth drivers and challenges in this Market.

Global Biochar Fertilizer Market segmentation has been included after determining various factors such as consumer’s expectations, common interest, consumption tendencies, and demographic profile of each region.

The report covers estimations of leading manufacturers and vendors in the market. It also includes the manufacturer’s market shares based on regions, production capacity utilization analysis, industry supply chain analysis, product specifications, efficient manufacturing methodologies, and business strategies. The report also emphasizes statistical details based on sales, revenue, growth rate, CAGR, profit and the structure of the manufacturer.

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The report on Granular Biochar Market delivers executive summary along with data analysis of the current market scenario of Granular Biochar. Report features in-depth outlook of the Granular Biochar market, which mainly focuses on definitions, specifications, widespread applications, classification and a complete Granular Biochar industry chain structure. The global Granular Biochar market further analyzes the competitive landscape, market development history and major developments trends involved in the Granular Biochar market.

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Global Biochar Market will generate new growth opportunities by 2024

4 March, 2019

Zion Market Research analysts forecasts the latest report on “Biochar Market: Global Industry Analysis, Size, Share, Growth, Trends, and Forecasts 2016–2024” , according to their latest report. The following report contains an interpretation of the marketing plan for Biochar Market. This Biochar Market report offers the clients with a unique opportunity that can drive them to higher levels of success and to great achievement. The Biochar Market report is created for clients by our analysts for resulting in best future planning of their business or start-up. The Biochar Market report consists of the revenues, retail and wholesale, royalty, profits, incentives, and other factors, of the major players. This report proves to be best for a business plan and intends to maximize the rewards for effort and provides substantial and ongoing income. Along with that this report also offers the product sales done by the contenders of the Biochar Market.

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Sonocatalytic activity of biochar-supported ZnO nanorods in degradation of gemifloxacin

5 March, 2019

This study focuses on the facile preparation of ZnO-biochar (ZnO-BC) nanocomposite prepared by the hydrothermal approach as an efficient sonocatalyst for degradation and mineralization of gemifloxacin (GMF). Morphological and textural characteristics of bare biochar (BC), ZnO nanorods (ZnO NRs) and ZnO-BC nanocomposite were investigated using TEM, SEM and BET analyses. Moreover, XRD, FTIR, EDX and UV-vis DRS analyses were performed to study the crystalline structure, functional groups, elemental composition and optical properties of the samples, respectively. ZnO-BC nanocomposite showed better sonocatalytic performance than BC and ZnO NRs owing to huge surface area, narrow band gap and enhanced sonoluminescence phenomenon. These properties led to the synergetic ability of ultrasonic irradiation and catalytic activity of ZnO-BC to generate reactive species and subsequent radical reactions. In addition, the effect of the addition of various gases and scavengers on the removal of GMF was evaluated. The GC-MS analysis was used to verify the generation of some intermediates and a possible pathway was proposed accordingly. 83.7% COD removal efficiency was observed within 90 min treatment confirming efficient mineralization of GMF solution. The phytotoxicity test was carried out using Lemna minor and the results proved that after the treatment process, a considerable toxicity removal of the GMF solution had occured.

Mechanisms and reutilization of modified biochar used for removal of heavy metals from wastewater

5 March, 2019

Heavy metals (HMs) pose serious threat to both human and environmental health and therefore, effective and low-cost techniques to remove HMs are urgently required. Because HMs are difficult to be biodegraded and transformed, adsorption is a most promising treatment method in recent times. Biochar (BC), a low-cost and sustainable adsorbent material, has recently attracted much research attention due to its broad application prospects. While BC has many merits, it has a lower HMs adsorption efficiency than traditional activated carbon, limiting its practical applications. Furthermore, the HMs retained by BC are difficult to be desorbed, making the used sorbent material hazardous wastes if not well disposed of under natural conditions. Therefore, it is critical to seek effective surface modifications for BC, to improve its ability to HMs removal ability and the recyclability of BC loaded with HMs. This review represents and evaluates the reported modification methods for BC, the corresponding HMs removal mechanisms and the potential for reutilization of BC loaded with HMs. This review provides a basis for the effective practical application of BC in the treatment of HMs containing wastewater.

A new substance, “Biochar”, could help the environment

5 March, 2019

Natalia Welzenbach-Marcu | March 3rd, 2019

Biochar, a kind of catch-all name for a blend of pyrogenic organic material, could be the solution that the agriculture industry is looking for.

“Pyrogenic” means “produced from heat or combustion”, and biochar is a mass of organic, composted material burned (without oxygen–in the absence of it) until a dark, solid, coal-like mass forms.

Doctor Rachel Hestrin, who works in the Lawerence Livermore National Laboratory in California, conducted an experiment where she took a portion of biochar and exposed it, in the lab, to some environmental and elemental changes that it would encounter in nature. She then tested its ability to absorb harmful excess nitrogen by exposing it to ammonia, and found that the biochar almost completely absorbed the ammonia pollution.

This development is exciting, as it indicates that biochar could be a useful and inexpensive protective substance to use for agriculture, and an effective way to reduce overall nitrogen pollution.

The study looks at Ethiopia and the possible improvements that biochar can help their farmers make, as most Ethiopian farmers use manure, straw, and other organic materials to fertilize crops. Manure, unfortunately, releases nitrogen into the air as it breaks down–but biochar could be a great solution for this problem.

Dr. Hestrin sees this material benefiting a wide range of businesses. UN Environment recently released a set of concerns for the environment, and one of the biggest is nitrogen pollution, making this the perfect time to debut a new, helpful solution.

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Biochar Soaks up Ammonia Pollution, Study Shows

5 March, 2019

A new Cornell-led study shows that pyrogenic matter, also known as biochar, is chock-full of potential as a fertilizer because of its ability to soak up nitrogen from the air pollutant ammonia.

A new Cornell-led study shows that pyrogenic matter, also known as biochar, is chock-full of potential as a fertilizer because of its ability to soak up nitrogen from the air pollutant ammonia. And it does so in a surprising way: through a chemical reaction that forms covalent bonds far stronger than those found in electrostatic interactions.

“Balancing nitrogen management so that we provide enough nitrogen to our crops … without contributing to air and water pollution is a major challenge,” said Rachel Hestrin, Ph.D. ’18, first author on the paper, “Fire-Derived Organic Matter Retains Ammonia Through Covalent Bond Formation,” which published Feb. 8 in Nature Communications.

“As nitrogen-rich materials like animal manure break down, a lot of nitrogen can volatilize into the atmosphere as ammonia gas,” she said. “That represents a huge loss of a valuable nutrient from the agricultural system. It could also affect biodiversity if that ammonia is deposited in natural ecosystems and alters nutrient availability there.”

The project has its origins in Ethiopia, where researchers led by Johannes Lehmann, the Liberty Hyde Bailey Professor of Soil Science, have been working to improve smallholder agriculture by recycling farm and municipal resources to make fertilizers that are high in phosphorus or nitrogen.

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The report provides global biochar market segmentation based on the product type, end-users, and region. The report offers an analysis of individual market segments from 2013 to 2017 and forecast from 2018 to 2023. The biochar market shares of each segment are calculated in the form of revenue likely to be generated (USD million) and year to year growth rate (CAGR).

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Biochar is a special form of charcoal that is made by roasting wood waste. After raw Biochar is co-composted with green waste and added to soil, Biochar improves tilth, retains nutrients and moisture, and offers habitat for beneficial microbes. Benefits of Biochar include improved crop yields, nutrient density, and food taste as well as reduced erosion and improved drought tolerance. Biochar is also carbon-negative and a low-tech solution to climate-change.

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Part of Delhi’s winter asphyxia can be attributed to crop residue burning in Punjab and Haryana, various studies have shown. A new study by researchers from the University of Washington, the Oklahoma State University and the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) pegs the cost of crop residue burning at $30 billion annually, by raising the risk of suffering acute respiratory illnesses (ARI) for those who suffer exposure in greater doses vis-a-vis those who are exposed to other sources of outdoor pollution but a much smaller degree of crop residue burning. The study found that the frequency of reported ARI in Haryana was strongly correlated with the number of daily fires (mostly from crop burning) recorded for an area by satellite imagery. Compared to this, southern states, where both crop residue burning and cracker burning record a much lower frequency and intensity, showed much lower vulnerability to ARI. What is worse, outdoor pollution, from crop residue burning, vehicular pollution, crackers, etc, is negating the gains made in reducing indoor pollution. No wonder, the study estimates, a complete abatement of fire-cracker and crop residue burning could stem the loss of 4.2 million and 14.9 million years in terms of disability-adjusted life years, valued at 1.7% of India’s GDP over five years.

Studies also show that it is linked to irreversible impairment of pulmonary function among children aged 10-13 years. Apart from this, the practice has a deleterious impact on soil quality and alters soil microflora with serious implications for agriculture in the long-run. While the states have taken steps to discourage farmers—through heavy fines—the practice continues, likely meaning that farmers find paying the fines more economical than undertaking more environmental-friendly methods of getting rid of the crop stubble, like using happy-seeder machines. The NITI Aayog had suggested anaerobic burning of the waste in a closed brick-and-clay structure to produce a carbon-rich residue called bio-char that can be used as a soil nutrient. But, even this has proved difficult to implement, given the costs, and the government’s (states and the Centre) inability to defray it to an extent where the farmer doesn’t feel the pinch. The solution perhaps lies in weaning Punjab and Haryana away from paddy. Paddy cultivation in these regions, in fact, exacts a large environmental toll. Scaling down public procurement of paddy at MSP drastically in these states apart from getting rid of subsidised power and water are, thus, imperative.

India’s burden from non-communicable diseases (NCD), including respiratory illnesses, is increasing. Given the country was the first to set a target of reducing NCD-deaths by 2025, it needs to urgently act on curbing crop burning. The right strategy to do this will need to balance the needs of those whose exposure to pollution from crop stubble burning is high with the needs of the farmers. And, that would be quite the tightrope to walk.

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The report presents a detailed segmentation Organic Fertilizer, Inorganic Fertilizer, Compound Fertilizer, Market Trend by Application Cereals, Oil Crops, Fruits and Vegetables, Others of the global market based on technology, product type, application, and various processes and systems. Our expert researchers evaluate the Biochar Fertilizer market report with the reference of catalogs and data provided by the key players Biogrow Limited, Anulekh, GreenBack, Global Harvest Organics LLC, Pacific Biochar, American BioChar, Pyrotech Energy, AIRTERRA, MBD Industries, secondary sources and directories that help to improve understanding of the related methodological conditions. The point-to-point explanation of the production process, the use of technology, specifications of the world market players, vendors and vendors analyzed, as well as the particular business data and their growth plans, aid our customers to spread future deployments and action plan to develop the same.

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Nitrate sorption to biochar following chemical oxidation

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Biochar amendments can reduce nitrate (NO3) leaching in agricultural soil. It has been hypothesized that functional groups on the biochar surface from oxidation can increase NO3 sorption. This study evaluates the effect of chemical oxidation of biochar on NO3 sorption characteristics. Eight biochars, made from wood and corn cobs, underwent sodium hypochlorite (NaClO) and hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) oxidation and then assessed for NO3 sorption capacity using batch isotherm methods. The unoxidized and oxidized biochar produced at low temperatures (400 °C) had no significant NO3 sorption. Oxidized biochars produced at higher temperatures (600 °C and 700 °C) had calculated maximum NO3 sorption capacities (Smax) ranging from 0.50 to 3.97 mg NO3-N g-1. Biochar oxidations with 50 mmol NaClO g-1 (N50) in combination with an acid wash (AW) had the largest estimated sorption capacities of 3.68, 3.97, and 1.46 mg NO3-N g-1 for CTN50,AW, BW3N50,AW, and CC3N50,AW, respectively. Sorption capacity of wood-based biochars was higher than corn cob biochars due to increased oxidation as measured by total acid group content (TAGC). Wood biochar Smax values were correlated with ΔTAGC (R2 = 0.86), with a slope of 1.2 μmol NO3-N μmol TAGC -1 suggesting that cationic bridging of NO3 to oxidized sites is the primary mechanism for NO3 sorption.

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Global Biochar Market Report 2018-2023 offers a comprehensive analysis on Biochar industry, delivering detailed market data and penetrating insights. The report provides analysis which is beneficial for industry insider, potential entrant and investor. The Biochar report will the thorough study of the key business players to grasp their business methods, annual revenue, company profile and their contribution to the world Biochar market share. The report covers a huge area of information including an overview, comprehensive analysis, definitions and classifications, applications, and expert opinions.

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Biochar Market Breakdown, Development and New Market opportunities & Forecasts

Biochar is the solid product of pyrolysis, designed to be used for environmental management. IBI defines biochar as: A solid material obtained from thermochemical conversion of biomass in an oxygen-limited environment. Biochar is charcoal used as a soil amendment. Like most charcoal, biochar is made from biomass via pyrolysis. Biochar can increase soil fertility of acidic soils (low pH soils), increase agricultural productivity, and provide protection against some foliar and soil-borne diseases. Furthermore, biochar reduces pressure on forests. Biochar is a stable solid, rich in carbon, and can endure in soil for thousands of years. The global Biochar market will reach xxx Million USD in 2018 and CAGR xx% 2018-2023. The report begins from overview of Industry Chain structure, and describes industry environment, then analyses market size and forecast of Biochar by product, region and application, in addition, this report introduces market competition situation among the vendors and company profile, besides, market price analysis and value chain features are covered in this report.

The overviews, SWOT analysis and strategies of each vendor in the Biochar market provide understanding about the market forces and how those can be exploited to create future opportunities.

Important application areas of Biochar are also assessed on the basis of their performance. Market predictions along with the statistical nuances presented in the report render an insightful view of the Biochar market. The market study on Global Biochar Market 2018 report studies present as well as future aspects of the Biochar Market primarily based upon factors on which the companies participate in the market growth, key trends and segmentation analysis.

The report offers the market growth rate, size, and forecasts at the global level in addition as for the geographic areas: Latin America, Europe, Asia Pacific, North America, and Middle East & Africa. Also it analyses, roadways and provides the global market size of the main players in each region. Moreover, the report provides knowledge of the leading market players within the Biochar market. The industry changing factors for the market segments are explored in this report. This analysis report covers the growth factors of the worldwide market based on end-users.

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Biochar Market – Revolutionary Opportunities 2025

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Global Biochar Market: Snapshot

The global biochar market is observing a significantly high rise in its valuation, thanks to the increasing preference for organic food among consumers across the world. The ability of biochar to improve the fertility of soil and enhance the growth of plants has surfaced as the main factor behind the growth of this market. Currently, synthetic and several other bio-based fertilizers are dominating the agricultural scenario, globally. However, the awareness about the benefits of biochar is spreading gradually among farmers and agriculturists, thereby, creating massive opportunities for further growth of this market in the coming years.

The global market for biochar includes both organized and unorganized manufacturers of biochar. Emerging countries, such as Japan, Brazil, China, and Mexico report of a prominent amount of biochar production from the unorganized sector, primarily manufactured by villagers in association with research institutes and various non-governmental support groups. However, the number of the organized players is anticipated to increase substantially in these countries over the next few years, thanks to the escalating demand for organic food, worldwide.

The full potential of biochar is yet to be realized in the agricultural sector and is projected to surface as a particularly important factor in the overall progression of the food sector in the near future. Water treatment is projected to emerge as an important application area of biochar in the years to come, especially in developing economies.

Global Biochar Market: Overview

Biochar is a time-honored soil amendment practice and also a fine solution to climate change effects. Regions with insufficient supply of chemical fertilizers, organic resources, and water can significantly benefit from this highly porous and fine-grained charcoal. Along with bioenergy, it can displace fossil fuel usage and sequester carbon in well-balanced soil carbon pools to tackle climate change. Biochar has won worldwide appreciation for its unique soil enhancing properties with the widespread prominence of the Amazon’s biochar-rich dark lands.

With a substantial rise in population size, organic food has drew in a lot of demand, owing to which the biochar market is expected to invite a handsome growth. The credit for this growth could be given to biochar’s propensity for improving plant development and soil fertility. The improving agricultural industry in different nations such as Australia, Germany, Canada, and the U.S. is anticipated to aggravate the demand for biochar. As a result, the global market is predicted to record a healthy growth over the coming years.

Large-scale gasification projects receiving support from Europe and North America governments and the increasing performance of organic farming are projected to put the world biochar market is a good position. The rise in meat consumption and growing significance of biochar in livestock farming benefiting with key nutrients are forecasted to set the tone for the market.

The growth in the global biochar market could be impeded on account of technological and financial barriers. Besides this, the ignorance of consumers on the part of biochar’s long-term advantages is foretold to delay the market growth. Howbeit, a considerable expansion of the market is expected to occur as organic food and farming open up new opportunities.

Global Biochar Market: Market Potential

Biochar possesses a massive potential to reduce the proportion of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, in fact, virtually every greenhouse emission. This could be an epic breakthrough in the elimination of climate-warming black carbon. Capable of enduring the test of time for survival, this super charcoal can sequester carbon dioxide many times longer than trees. For producers which operate in areas where labor cost is economical but maintenance expenditure is large, biochar production could be ideal. This is because of the simple and low-priced equipment required to convert soy hay and other wastes into biochar. In a way, the biochar market is deemed to be a great medium to minimize the gap between smart business and smart environmentalism.

The biochar sector is envisaged to be developed at a telling rate on the back of regions such as Europe and North America, registering an elevating rise in the count of small and medium scale manufacturers. A steady progress is foreseen to be witnessed by Australia as the awareness about the advantages and benefits of biochar escalates across the country. Followed by Europe, North America is prognosticated to record a dominant share in the global biochar market. Producers of biochar can also find opportunities in other markets such as Asia Pacific and Rest of the World.

Global Biochar Market: Competitive Landscape

Players in the biochar market receive support from companies supplying pyrolysis technology and wood pellets and residue. Phoenix Energy, Cool Planet Energy Systems Inc., Pacific Pyrolysis, and 3R ENVIRO TECH Group are some of the top firms involved in the pyrolysis technology business. Wood pellets and residue are primarily provided by timber businesses such as West Fraser, Georgia-Pacific, and Weyerhaeuser. Out of the prominent biochar players in the international market, Biochar Supreme, LLC is prophesied to make the cut. The analysts anticipate the market to own a fragmented character.

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Global Biochar Market Business Insights and Development Analysis to 2028

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The global biochar market is observing a significantly high rise in its valuation, thanks to the increasing preference for organic food among consumers across the world.

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The global biochar market is observing a significantly high rise in its valuation, thanks to the increasing preference for organic food among consumers across the world. The ability of biochar to improve the fertility of soil and enhance the growth of plants has surfaced as the main factor behind the growth of this market. Currently, synthetic and several other bio-based fertilizers are dominating the agricultural scenario, globally. However, the awareness about the benefits of biochar is spreading gradually among farmers and agriculturists, thereby, creating massive opportunities for further growth of this market in the coming years.

The global market for biochar includes both organized and unorganized manufacturers of biochar. Emerging countries, such as Japan, Brazil, China, and Mexico report of a prominent amount of biochar production from the unorganized sector, primarily manufactured by villagers in association with research institutes and various non-governmental support groups. However, the number of the organized players is anticipated to increase substantially in these countries over the next few years, thanks to the escalating demand for organic food, worldwide.

The full potential of biochar is yet to be realized in the agricultural sector and is projected to surface as a particularly important factor in the overall progression of the food sector in the near future. Water treatment is projected to emerge as an important application area of biochar in the years to come, especially in developing economies.

Global Biochar Market: Overview

Biochar is a time-honored soil amendment practice and also a fine solution to climate change effects. Regions with insufficient supply of chemical fertilizers, organic resources, and water can significantly benefit from this highly porous and fine-grained charcoal. Along with bioenergy, it can displace fossil fuel usage and sequester carbon in well-balanced soil carbon pools to tackle climate change. Biochar has won worldwide appreciation for its unique soil enhancing properties with the widespread prominence of the Amazon’s biochar-rich dark lands.

Global Biochar Market: Key Trends

With a substantial rise in population size, organic food has drew in a lot of demand, owing to which the biochar market is expected to invite a handsome growth. The credit for this growth could be given to biochar’s propensity for improving plant development and soil fertility. The improving agricultural industry in different nations such as Australia, Germany, Canada, and the U.S. is anticipated to aggravate the demand for biochar. As a result, the global market is predicted to record a healthy growth over the coming years.

Large-scale gasification projects receiving support from Europe and North America governments and the increasing performance of organic farming are projected to put the world biochar market is a good position. The rise in meat consumption and growing significance of biochar in livestock farming benefiting with key nutrients are forecasted to set the tone for the market.

The growth in the global biochar market could be impeded on account of technological and financial barriers. Besides this, the ignorance of consumers on the part of biochar’s long-term advantages is foretold to delay the market growth. Howbeit, a considerable expansion of the market is expected to occur as organic food and farming open up new opportunities.

Global Biochar Market: Market Potential

Biochar possesses a massive potential to reduce the proportion of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, in fact, virtually every greenhouse emission. This could be an epic breakthrough in the elimination of climate-warming black carbon. Capable of enduring the test of time for survival, this super charcoal can sequester carbon dioxide many times longer than trees. For producers which operate in areas where labor cost is economical but maintenance expenditure is large, biochar production could be ideal. This is because of the simple and low-priced equipment required to convert soy hay and other wastes into biochar. In a way, the biochar market is deemed to be a great medium to minimize the gap between smart business and smart environmentalism.

Global Biochar Market: Regional Outlook

The biochar sector is envisaged to be developed at a telling rate on the back of regions such as Europe and North America, registering an elevating rise in the count of small and medium scale manufacturers. A steady progress is foreseen to be witnessed by Australia as the awareness about the advantages and benefits of biochar escalates across the country. Followed by Europe, North America is prognosticated to record a dominant share in the global biochar market. Producers of biochar can also find opportunities in other markets such as Asia Pacific and Rest of the World.

Global Biochar Market: Competitive Landscape

Players in the biochar market receive support from companies supplying pyrolysis technology and wood pellets and residue. Phoenix Energy, Cool Planet Energy Systems Inc., Pacific Pyrolysis, and 3R ENVIRO TECH Group are some of the top firms involved in the pyrolysis technology business. Wood pellets and residue are primarily provided by timber businesses such as West Fraser, Georgia-Pacific, and Weyerhaeuser. Out of the prominent biochar players in the international market, Biochar Supreme, LLC is prophesied to make the cut. The analysts anticipate the market to own a fragmented character.

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Biochar Making Machine

6 March, 2019

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Biofuels Market Size & Share Is Growing Globally By 2016–2022

6 March, 2019

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Cow manure-derived biochar

7 March, 2019

The conversion of waste biomass into biochar is considered as a waste disposal alternative, especially because biochar is a low-cost adsorbent for soil contaminants. However, a risk of desorption of contaminants from biochar may lead to secondary pollution. This study investigated the degradation behavior of soil fumigant, 1,3-dichloropropne (1,3-D), on cow manure-derived biochar (CMB) pyrolyzed at five different temperatures from 300 to 700 °C (termed as C-300 to C-700). Results showed that 1,3-D degradation rate was U-shape related to biochar pyrolysis temperature. Four degradation byproducts (NH2CH2CH2CH3OH, CH3CH2NH2, NH2COCONH2, OHCH2COOH) were identified by headspace GC-MS. When biochar humidity improved from 0 to 50% or incubation temperature increased from 20 to 40 °C, the degradation of cis-1,3-D on C-300 improved 24.26% and 35.48%, respectively. The •OH concentrations, detected by the terephthalic acid method, were considerably higher for C-300 than that for C-700. Pyrolysis temperature (300-700 ° C) governed biochar physicochemical properties and further affected 1,3-D degradation mechanisms (pH-controlled substitution or •OH-restricted oxidation reactions). All these findings showed that CMB can adsorb and degrade 1,3-D, thereby reduce its desorption risk, indicative of the conversion of cow manure into biochar as an effective waste management practice.

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7 March, 2019

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The Asia Pacific biochar market is expected to witness significant contribution to the global biochar market, by registering a robust growth of nearly 10% by 2020. Growth of biochar market is also associated with the bio-fuel sector as the former is a by-product of the bio-fuels industry. With already established market of biochar in China and Japan, Asia Pacific biochar market is expected to witness positive growth with an increased market share of 12% in 2020 as compared to 10% in 2013.

Country wise, Greater China accounts for about 94.7% of the Asia Pacific market, followed by ASEAN with a share of 5.2%. The trend is expected to be almost the same in the next six years with Greater China expected to account for 95% share of the Asia Pacific biochar market.

The biochar used on agricultural land, can have a wide range of physical, chemical and biological effects on soil properties. Also cattle manure is important not only as the amount of nutrients inserted into the soil, but also for improving the conditions for growth and development of the plants. The positive effects on soil properties and plant growth are usually observed when biochar is used in mixture with other types of organic fertilizers. In this study, was used sewage sludge biochar, cattle manure compost, and mixtures made from these organic wastes in different concentrations, at application rates of 5 t/ha and 30 t/ha, with the aim of to determine the effects on soil properties and barley plants. The use of biochar, compost and biochar-compost mixtures at 30 t/ha, produced a significant increase of barley plants and an improvement of the pH, electrical conductivity and soil respiration, while at 5 t/ha application rate, the effect of this two organic wastes and mixtures of these in different concentrations, on plants growth and soil was reduced. Keywords: sewage sludge biochar, manure compost, soil, plants

Sewage sludge and manure are two of the most The biochar-compost mixture can improve crop yieldsabundant wastes and can represent an important source through a variety of mechanisms, including increasing theof nutrients for soil and plants growth, and from this reason, amount of nutrients, soil pH improvement, improvedthis wastes can be used as fertilizer in agriculture [1]. nutrient efficiency and therefore nutrient uptake by plants The sewage sludge is rich in nutrients, organic matter and improved water retention capacity in the soil [17]. Theand trace elements that are beneficial for plant growth use of biochar in mixtures with compost obtained fromand soil fertility, but also, the sludge contains chemical various organic wastes was proposed as a method ofpollutants, heavy metals, pesticides, pathogens and other improving, physical, chemical and biological properties ofdangerous organic compounds which can be released into the soil and crops productivity and can be considered athe environment [2-6]. Sludge resulting from wastewater solution for remediation of degraded soils [18].treatment can create significant environmental problems The aim of the study is to determine the influence ofrelated to air emissions, soil and water resources sewage sludge biochar, cattle manure compost, andcontamination, so this waste requires proper treatment mixtures made from this organic wastes in differentand efficient management [7]. To attenuate the negative concentrations, at two application rates on the autumneffects of direct application of sewage sludge on barley plants and soil properties.agricultural land, its transformation into biochar by thepyrolysis process constitutes an efficient method of Experimental partrecycling this waste [8]. The pyrolysis process significantly Soil and feedstockreduces the weight and volume of the sludge, the heavy The soil used in the study was collected from anmetals are immobilized and their bioavailability in soil is uncultivated area by at least 5 years from Bacãu county,reduced, pathogens and unpleasant smell are removed, Romania in July 2016. The soil was air-dried, passed throughresulting a solid product that has a positive impact on the a sieve with holes of 4 mm and homogenized before tosoil properties and also on plant growth [8-10]. start the greenhouse experiment. The manure from cattle is considered an organic waste The sewage sludge biochar was provided by thethat is found in large quantities and is widely used on NovoCarbo Company from Germany and was obtained byagricultural fields [11]. Cattle manure was extensively used slow pyrolysis at 500°C and an retention time by 15 minute.as an organic fertilizer because it has a high content of Cattle manure compost was obtained after a traditionalnitrogen, phosphorus and potassium [12]. Composting is method used in Romania to produce compost. The manureconsidered an efficient method to transform manure into was placed in a pile on the soil surface and covered with aa stabilized, disinfected and useful product for agriculture, layer of soil by approximately 15-20 cm thick and left inand studies on this topic have increased in recent years natural conditions for approximate 2 years. After this[13]. Utilisation of compost for soil fertilization is associated period, the soil layer was removed and was collected thewith minimizing the risk of spreading pathogens, weeds traditional Romanian compost, named mrania, which was,and improving the quality and soil fertility, and also increase air-dried, then passed through a sieve with 4 mm holesproduction and quality of the crops [14, 15]. and was again air-dried until has reached constant weight. The sewage sludge biochar has lower nitrogen contentand because of this is recommended to be use it in mixture Greenhouse experimentwith other types of organic fertilizers to improves soil The greenhouse experiment was carried out betweenproperties and to provides essential nutrients for plants [16]. august-november 2016, in Bacau, Romania, for a period of 90 days, having as a study plant the autumn barley.* email: vnedeff@ub.ro; Phone: +40723675128REV.CHIM.(Bucharest)♦70 ♦ No. 1 ♦ 2019 http://www.revistadechimie.ro 169 The sewage sludge biochar and cattle manure compostwas used in mixture with soil at two application rates by 5t/ha and 30 t/ha. For each application rate, were used onecontrol variant and 11 different concentrations. The cattle manure compost (M) was used inconcentrations by: 0%, 10%, 20%, 30%, 40%, 50%, 60%,70%, 80%, 90%, 100% in mixture with sewage sludgebiochar (B) in concentrations by: 100%, 90%, 80%, 70%,60%, 50%, 40%, 30%, 20%, 10%, 0%. For each treatment, 6replicate was used, each having a weight of 1.5 kg. The treatments were named according to the rate ofapplication and the concentrations used: C (control), M0- Fig. 2. Barley plants germinated at 30 t/ha application rateB100, M10-B90, M20-B80, M30-B70, M40-B60, M50-B50,M60-B40, M70-B30, M80-B20, M90-B10, M100-B0 cattle manure compost and mixtures sewage sludge biochar-cattle manure compost, many plants germinatedPlant growth and dry biomass in the first 2 days, after the number of germinated plants A number of 25 seeds of autumn barley were sown in has decreased until in day 7, when was recorded the lowesteach pot, and the number of germinated plants was values of germinated plants.counted and recorded daily. When plants had at least 2 In comparasion with soil control can be observed fromleaf formats, the number of barley plants, was reduced at figure 1. that the sewage sludge biochar and cattle manure2 plants in each plastic container. Determination of barley compost, didn’t influenced germination of the barley plants.plant height and number of tillers was performed in the When the germination period ended, the germinated barleymiddle (44 days) and end of greenhouse experiment (88 plants were removed, leaving only two barley plants in eachdays). After 90 days, barley plants were cut from the soil plastic container.surface and dried at 70 °C for 12 hours, and was determinedthe dry biomass of the plants [19, 20]. Barley height The positive effect of mixtures sewage sludge biochar-Analysis of soil samples cattle manure compost on barley plant growth, is very The soil samples were taken with a metal cylinder of 15 noticeable at the application rate of 30 t/ha, where thecm height and 4 cm diameter. The samples were air-dried barley plant height has reached the highest valuesand stored. especially in treatments with a high concentration of cattle To measure the pH and electrical conductivity of the manure compost.soil, aqueous suspensions were made in a ratio of 1:5 The height of the barley plants measured at 5 t/hasoil:distilled water, which was homogenized for 2 hours at application rate of mixtures sewage sludge biochar- cattle120 rpm and filtered before the measurements began. This manure compost, did not vary greatly compared to themethod for measuring pH and soil conductivity has been barley plants height measured in the control variant, onlyused similarly in other studies [21, 22]. in treatments with 100% cattle manure compost – 0% The Hydrochloric acid titration method was used to sewage sludge biochar (M100-B0) and 90% cattle manuremeasure soil respiration. Inside of the glass bottle was put compost – 10% sewage sludge biochar (M100-B0), awetted soil and another container with sodium hydroxide significant increase in barley plant height is observed bothsolution, the glass bottle was sealed hermetically and left after 44 days and 88 days after sowing (figs. 3 and 4).for 24 hours at 20 °C. After incubation, the container withsodium hydroxide solution was taken and was addedbarium chloride solution and few drops of phenolphthaleinand the colour became pink. The solution was titrated withhydrochloric acid solution until the colour becomes whitishagain [23, 24].Results and discussionsPlant germination The barley, (Hordeum vulgare L.) is a plant that isresistant to stress conditions and is the fourth mostimportant crop in the world, after wheat, maize and rice,mainly used in the food industry and for animal food [25-28]. Fig. 3. The barley plants height at 44 days after sowing From figures 1 and 2, it can be noticed that at 5 t/ha and30 t/ha, application rate of the sewage sludge biochar,

Fig. 4. The barley plants height at 88 days after sowing

Fig. 1. Barley plants germinated at 5 t/ha application rate170 http://www.revistadechimie.ro REV.CHIM.(Bucharest)♦70♦ No. 1 ♦ 2019 From figure 3, can be observed that treatments with a In a study, where cattle manure compost was used, thehigh concentration of sewage sludge biochar in mixture results showed that onion plant height, the number of leafwith a low concentration of cattle manure compost, had a and the diameter of the bulb onion, generally showedlower effect on the growth of plants at 5 t/ha and also at 30 increasing values depending on the increase of applicationt/ha application rate in comparison with plants height rates [30].obtained in treatments with a small concentration of The height of the rice plants, the number of tillers, thesewage sludge biochar in mixture with a high concentration amount of rice grains increased especially when theof cattle manure compost. application rate of the sewage sludge biochar increased Results obtained after utilisation of manure compost [31]. Growth parameters of French mallows showedand sewage sludge biochar on plant growth have been significant differences due to the application of sewagereported in other studies. For example, the growth of sludge biochar compared to the control variant [32].spinach plants has been improved by the application ofcompost from cattle manure due to the high content of Dry biomass of autumn barley plantsorganic matter and nutrients [29]. At the end of the greenhouse experiment, it was In another study, it has been observed that after observed that the use of cattle manure compost, theapplication of the sewage sludge biochar, increased the sewage sludge biochar and mixtures of these organicheight of the tomato plants, the dry biomass and the wastes in different concentrations, had a positive effectnumber of fruits obtained [20]. Compared to the results on the amount of dry biomass obtained.obtained in the control variant, maize growing and biomass Figure 7 shows the results from the barley plant dryproduction was improved in treatments where sewage weight, and it is noted that at the 5 t/ha application rate,sludge biochar was used [16]. was a slight increase of the dry weight of the barley plants compared to control variant, the most significant valuesTillers number were determined in mixtures with a high concentration of The number of tillers determined in the middle and at cattle manure compost in mixture with a low concentrationthe end of the greenhouse experiment increased in all of sewage sludge biochar.mixtures sewage sludge biochar- cattle manure compost,used in different concentrations at the two application rates. Figure 5 shows that the number of barley tillers at 5 t/haand at 30 t/ha application rate, increased in all theexperimental treatments, especially at the application rateof 30 t/ha of sewage sludge biochar-cattle manurecompost, where the number of barley tillers wassignificantly higher.

Nepal has an area of 147,181 square kilometres, 40.4 percent of which is covered by forests. More than two-thirds of the population live and work in rural areas within subsistence agricultural economies in which forests are important assets. Biomass energy accounts for approximately 70 percent of the energy requirement. The burning of biomass fuels represents one of the major sources of greenhouse gas emissions. A temperature trend analysis from 1971 to 2014 shows a rise in the average annual maximum temperature by 0.056 degree Celsius; and during the same period, 22,372 climate-induced disasters occurred.

Considering the looming uncertainties and increasing climatic threats, the coping ability of vulnerable communities is questionable. The farm sector, which accounts for 29 percent of the Gross Domestic Product and employs 66 percent of the population, is already facing weather and climate impacts. Other important sectors of the economy such as forestry, livestock, tourism and infrastructure are also climate sensitive. Nepal has prioritised adaptation to climate change and disaster risk management policies besides acknowledging the need for international climate finance to complement national resources.

Reducing greenhouse gas emissions and continuously monitoring them is essential for the reduction of global warming. Cutting emissions from deforestation and forest degradation has been piloted in the developing countries as a climate change mitigation strategy by providing financial incentives for carbon sequestration in the forests. Carbon exists in many forms, predominately as plant biomass, soil organic matter and carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and dissolved in seawater. Carbon sequestration is the process of long-term storage of carbon in oceans, soils, vegetation (especially forests), and geologic formations.

Carbon sequestration is one of the prominent ecosystem services provided by forests, however, it has been debilitated by deforestation and forest degradation. Rapid population growth is considered to be the main cause of deforestation and forest degradation. Nepal had a population of 26,494,504 in 2011, with more than 50.3 percent of the people living in the Tarai. The high population has resulted in heavy pressure on the forests to meet their demand for forest products. Forest carbon sequestration is recognised as a cost effective and efficient option to address the issues of climate change. Trees have the potential to suck carbon dioxide from the air and store it in their wood, barks, leaves and roots.

Carbon farming uses plants to trap carbon dioxide, then strategically uses practices such as reducing tillage, planting longer rooted crops, and incorporating organic material into the soil to encourage the trapped carbon to move into an stay in the soil. Managing the vegetative cover to enhance the capacity of the soil to store large volumes of atmospheric carbon offers a practical and almost immediate solution to some of the most challenging issues currently faced by humankind.

Agro-forestry is a sustainable land use system and practice in which woody perennials (trees, shrubs) are grown with herbaceous annuals (crops, pasture grass). It supports the livelihood of billions of people worldwide and provides a wide range of products such as food, fuel, fibre, fodder and forage for livestock. According to a case study of agro-forestry in the mid-hills of Nepal, it is possible to earn Rs45,490 per hectare from carbon sequestration per household if a payment scheme is introduced. Climate change is the world’s most urgent environmental problem, and given world dependence on fossil fuels, one of its most intractable problems. Renewable energy sources in the form of solar, wind, hydro, geothermal, and biomass energy must ultimately replace fossil-fuel combustion.

Energy obtained by combustion of biomass (plant matter produced in the recent past) is perpetually renewable and is ultimately carbon neutral, and the carbon dioxide released in combustion is ultimately absorbed by new plant growth. Biochar production is a variation of biomass energy, where plant matter is only partially combusted for energy, leaving biochar as a charcoal residue. The carbon in this biochar is highly resistant to further decay, so that when applied to agricultural soils, a portion of the original biomass carbon is effectively sequestered for decades, centuries, or even millennia. Biochar is thus a potentially carbon-negative energy resource, producing energy while simultaneously sequestering carbon. Biochar has been used for centuries to enrich the soil for farming, but lately it has been drawing increased attention for its ability to sequester carbon.

Carbon storage is not cheap, but neither is climate change. The task of reducing greenhouse gases will only become larger and more daunting the longer we delay. Various adaptive and area-specific policies and programmes are critical for sequestering carbon, and perhaps to a lesser extent, promoting biodiversity. Such policies and programmes need to provide communities with practical guidance for adopting locally suitable management options. Dedicated policies are crucial to incentivise communities to pursue active forest management that enhances biodiversity conservation and carbon storage. Considering the increasing vulnerability and economic costs of climate change in the country, it is imperative that Nepal mobilises national and international climate strategies to protect its population and communities from climate risks and safeguard development gains.

Adhikari is currently working as an agri-intern at the Prime Minister Agriculture Modernisation Project.

Global Biofuels Market will respond $ 218.7 Billion in 2022

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Global Biochar Market Growth 2019-2024

8 March, 2019

This report studies the Biochar market, Biochar is the solid product of pyrolysis, designed to be used for environmental management. IBI defines biochar as: A solid material obtained from thermochemical conversion of biomass in an oxygen-limited environment.

Biochar is charcoal used as a soil amendment. Like most charcoal, biochar is made from biomass via pyrolysis. Biochar can increase soil fertility of acidic soils (low pH soils), increase agricultural productivity, and provide protection against some foliar and soil-borne diseases. Furthermore, biochar reduces pressure on forests. Biochar is a stable solid, rich in carbon, and can endure in soil for thousands of years. Biochar is a fragmented industry with a variety of manufacturers, among which most are small privately-owned companies. The top 5 producers account for just 38.34% of the market. Also, many companies are emerging companies that specialized in the production of biochar, and a large share of their products is sold by traders and online. A key variable in the performance of biochar producers is raw material costs, specifically the speed at which any increase can be passed through to customers. The materials of biochar include wood, rice stove, corn stove and other biomass materials. Wood now is the major raw material of biochar, but its price would be higher than other derived product. The price of crop raw material fluctuates with agricultural market in local market.

According to this study, over the next five years the Biochar market will register a xx% CAGR in terms of revenue, the global market size will reach US$ xx million by 2024, from US$ xx million in 2019. In particular, this report presents the global market share (sales and revenue) of key companies in Biochar business, shared in Chapter 3.

The report also presents the market competition landscape and a corresponding detailed analysis of the major vendor/manufacturers in the market. The key manufacturers covered in this report: Breakdown data in in Chapter 3. Cool Planet Biochar Supreme NextChar Terra Char Genesis Industries Interra Energy CharGrow Pacific Biochar Biochar Now The Biochar Company (TBC) ElementC6 Vega Biofuels

In addition, this report discusses the key drivers influencing market growth, opportunities, the challenges and the risks faced by key manufacturers and the market as a whole. It also analyzes key emerging trends and their impact on present and future development.

Research objectives To study and analyze the global Biochar consumption (value & volume) by key regions/countries, product type and application, history data from 2014 to 2018, and forecast to 2024. To understand the structure of Biochar market by identifying its various subsegments. Focuses on the key global Biochar manufacturers, to define, describe and analyze the sales volume, value, market share, market competition landscape, SWOT analysis and development plans in next few years. To analyze the Biochar with respect to individual growth trends, future prospects, and their contribution to the total market. To share detailed information about the key factors influencing the growth of the market (growth potential, opportunities, drivers, industry-specific challenges and risks). To project the consumption of Biochar submarkets, with respect to key regions (along with their respective key countries). To analyze competitive developments such as expansions, agreements, new product launches, and acquisitions in the market. To strategically profile the key players and comprehensively analyze their growth strategies.

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Biochar Found to Soak Up Nitrogen from Air Pollutant Ammonia

A study led by Cornell University shows that biochar has the ability to soak up nitrogen from the air pollutant ammonia through a chemical reaction. Research in Ethiopia proposed to capture the nitrogen that would otherwise be lost from compost by adding biochar, and successfully documented this capture. Professor Johannes Lehmann notes that biochar compost has several potential benefits for farmers: it can conserve nitrogen for use as fertilizer, reduce odors from manure, and protect local water quality. In addition, the study revealed to scientists a process by which nitrogen emitted through mineralization and fires is naturally recaptured in terrestrial ecosystems.

Global Biochar Market | Analysis and Industry Forecast (2019-2026)

8 March, 2019

The research report “Biochar Market: Global and Regional Analysis 2019 — 2024” discover accurate information about the long run prospects of this biochar market, which can help industry players to understand the flow of the market throughout the period 2019-2024. The global biochar market has defined the market scenario in an orderly way, emphasizing the industrial development, prominent players engaged from the current biochar market, chapter wise market specifications, industrial procedures, that will absolutely assist our readers to aim towards the biochar industry perspective and promote stability with cost-effectiveness and revenue structure.

The primary objective of this report will be to send its readers with a real intelligence on the biochar market, to aid them in collecting and slating possible strategies by holistic insights provided on Biochar Market. The report begins with the market introduction which is accompanied closely by statistical particulars of this market that reveals the biochar market current status and future prediction and classification such as product types, and biochar end-use applications, as well as region. These further shed light on market factors like market developments, biochar demand and supply, current market scenario and it’s growth trajectory in decades, opportunities for stakeholders in worldwide biochar market. Also, the report discusses business plans, sales and profit, market stations and market volume, biochar raw material suppliers, and buyers demand information and distribution ratio.

Competitive landscape segment in the biochar report relies on the current as well as the potential of the leading market players at the market. It offers the in-depth company profiles of a number of the significant market players, that may stay active in pre-destined decades, combined with company profile, biochar product launches, product market, and gross margin, financial details, key advancements, biochar business short-term and long-term marketing and advertising strategies and SWOT analysis of these competitive firms.

The report provides global biochar market segmentation based on the product type, end-users, and region. The report offers an analysis of individual market segments from 2014 to 2018 and forecast from 2019 to 2024. The biochar market shares of each segment are calculated in the form of revenue likely to be generated (USD million) and year to year growth rate (CAGR).

Garden Center editor Michelle Simakis was recognized as both a national and regional finalist in the All Content —- Company Profile, Less Than $3 Million Revenue category for her story titled ‘A modern vision.’ The story features Colonial Gardens, a garden center that is reinventing the IGC model by combining plant retail, local food and agritourism, with a focus on experience, education and entertainment.

Additionally, Garden Center art director Stephanie Antal was recognized as a national and regional finalist in the Infographics category. Antal was also recognized in the Opening Page/Spread-Photo, Less Than $3 Million Revenue category for her work on the story ‘In it together’.

Greenhouse Management graphic designer Allison Krieg was recognized as both a national and regional finalist in the Front Cover-Photo, Less Than $3 Million category for the cover of the February 2018 issue of the magazine with the headline ‘As the smoke clears.’ Assistant editor Chris Manning was also recognized as a regional finalist in the General Interest, Less Than $3 Million Revenue category for ‘As the smoke clears’ — a story about greenhouse businesses moving past the December 2017 Thomas Fire in California.

Graphic designer Tiana Kropko was named both a national and regional finalist in the Front Cover-Photo, Less Than $3 Million Revenue category for the cover of the November 2018 issue of Nursery Management with the headline ‘Ahead of the curve’. Nursery Management managing editor Matt McClellan was named a regional finalist in the Print – Technical Article category for his story ‘Betting on biochar’.

Finally, Produce Grower senior editor Patrick Williams was recognized as a regional finalist in the Company Profile, Less Than $3 Million Revenue category for his story ‘Growing ‘up’ with cucumbers’ from the June 2018 issue of the magazine. The story profiled Big Marble Farms in Alberta, Canada, and told the story of how the Cramer family has shaped the business.

As a company, GIE Media received several awards from ASBPE across multiple magazines and markets.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Department of Labor recently announced updates to its procedures for processing H-2B applications.

Because of the intense competition for H-2B visas in recent years, there have been challenges to handle the increasingly large volume of H-2B applications filed on January 1 of each year. As a result of stakeholder comments and the most recent filing period in which the iCERT electronic filing system crashed due to the large volume of system user requests, Office of Foreign Labor Certification reassessed its procedures for processing H-2B applications.

OFLC announced that all H-2B applications filed on or after July 3, 2019 will be randomly ordered for processing based on the date of filing and the start date of work requested. OFLC will randomly order and process all of the H-2B applications requesting the earliest start date of work permitted under the semi-annual visa allocation (i.e., October 1 or April 1) and filed during the first three calendar days of the regulatory time period for filing H-2B applications. Once first actions are issued, OFLC will randomly assign for processing all other H-2B applications filed on a single calendar day.

OFLC is seeking comments on this procedural change for a period of 30 calendar days from the date that the notice is published in the Federal Register. Interested stakeholders may submit comments to H2BReform.Comments@dol.gov or Thomas M. Dowd, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Employment and Training Administration, U.S. Department of Labor, Box PPII 12-200, 200 Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20210. OFLC will review all of the comments received, make any changes it determines are appropriate, and issue a final announcement prior to July 3, 2019.

In a press release, Dümmen Orange announced that it and Westhoff, the Germany-based plant breeder, are partnering to include Westhoff spring annuals in the Basewell product form.

Basewell products, which Dümmen Orange launched in 2018, are bare-root cuttings that do not require growing media and feature “advanced root development.” Dümmen Orange ships the Basewell products from its off-shore production locations and, upon arrival, the cuttings are ready to transplant directly into finish containers. Growers in North America will be able to purchase the annuals for the spring 2020.

“Basewell is a technological leap forward for our industry, and we at Westhoff are excited to be able to have our products offered in this new form,” Westhoff owner and CEO Christian Westhoff said, according to a press release. “Growers will benefit from the ease of using our products in a new, extremely flexible product form that will help improve input quality. We see this as being another solution to meet our customers’ needs.”

According to a press release, the National Garden Bureau and All-America Selections elected new officers and board members on Feb. 1. Elections were held during meetings at the ASTA Flower and Vegetable Seed Conference in Orlando, which ran Feb 1-5.

NGB elected Marissa Verdi from Harris Seeds/Garden Trends as its new director. Verdi is the business to consumer (B2C) manager at Harris Seeds/Garden Trends. She also has a master’s degree from the University of Georgia in plant protection and pest management.

AAS appointed Jim Devereux, vice president of Green Fuse Botanicals, as its president and Scott Rusch, product development manager at PanAmerican Seed, as its vice president. Alicain Carlson, the technical trials manager at Syngenta Flowers, was also elected as an AAS director.

According a NGB and AAS spokesperson, the four electees began their positions on Feb. 1.

Chapter 11: This chapter of Biochar market tells about Market Competition Status by Major Manufacturers such as Production Volume, Production Value Investment, New Product Development and Launch. Also include basic information like Headquarters Location, Established Time, Employees and Revenue.

Chapter 12: This chapter of Biochar market includes Company profile, Sales, Revenue, Price and Gross Margin of all companies mentioned above.

This report provides detailed insights and analysis on the state of the Biochar and provide a valuable source of information and direction for companies and individuals interested in this market.

Further in the report, the Biochar Market is examined for Sales, Revenue, Price and Gross Margin. These points are analysed for companies, types, and regions. In continuation with this data, the sale price is for various types, applications and region is also included. The Biochar Market consumption for major regions is given. Additionally, type wise and application wise figures are also provided in this report.

On Mar 8 James Gaspard Filed Form D. Biochar Now $1.30 million Financing.

8 March, 2019

A form D was published by Biochar Now, Llc, Limited Liability Company about $1.30 million equity financing. This is a new filing. The remaining amount is $1.30 million.In total it’s $1.30 million. On 2019-03-08 the document was published and the reason was: unspecified. The fundraising still has about $1.30 million more and is not closed yet. We have to wait more to see if the offering will be fully taken.

Biochar Now is based in Colorado. The firm works in the not disclosed business. The person that submitted the form D was James Gaspard Manager. The company was incorporated more than five years ago. The filler’s address is: 2409 Lake Dr, Loveland, Co, Colorado, 80538. James Gaspard is the related person in the form and it has address: 2409 Lake Dr, Loveland, Co, Colorado, 80538-3127. Link to Biochar Now Filing: 000153723419000001.

The startups in the not disclosed sector sell on avg 67.77 % of their offerings size. Biochar Now have sold 0.00 % so far. The fundraising is still open. Also companies in all industries in our database have an avg fundraising amount of $3.05 million.That’s 100.00 % smaller than the average. Of course this should not be seen as negative. Startups raise funds for different needs and reasons.As for minimum investment it was set at $0.

Usually Form D fillings have information that ventures and startups don’t like revealing. More precisely they reveal plans and reasons for funds raising. On other hand this could help understand better your competitors.

The Form D signed by James Gaspard might help Biochar Now, Llc as clients feel much more safe to work with a better financed firm. Chances are high that Biochar Now, Llc will stay financially sound. There are good PR effects as well as more attention from angels venture-capital, firms and funds.

Farms aren't tossing perfectly good produce. You are.

8 March, 2019

If food waste were a country, it would be the world’s third-largest emitter of CO2, after China and the United States. In our nation alone, we throw away some 63 million tons of food a year, even as 40 million Americans are considered food insecure.

Advocates of the “ugly produce” movement say they have a way to radically reduce this waste: cutting the price of fruits and vegetables that normally go uneaten because they look too weird. “We’re not talking about rotten stuff, we’re not talking about stuff that’s beyond the pale. We’re talking about good, fresh food that is being wasted on a colossal scale,” proclaims Tristram Stuart, author of “Waste: Uncovering the Global Food Scandal,” recounting how, as a teen, he discovered a local farmer throwing away edible potatoes too misshapen for supermarkets. Food & Wine magazine launched #LoveUglyFood, with then-editor in chief Dana Cowin urging readers to “embrace all that is edible, not just what is beautiful.” Activist Jordan Figueiredo has championed the “Ugly” Fruit & Veg Campaign by sharing cute photos of knobby eggplants on social media and petitioning Walmart, Whole Foods and other retailers to stock imperfect produce.

Over the past several years, start-ups that bring ugly produce to consumers have proliferated. “Shark Tank” alumnus Hungry Harvest, which delivers boxes of “rescued” fruits and veggies to subscribers’ doorsteps, claims that “demand for aesthetic perfection & homogeneity” drives us to squander food: “100 years ago, farmers could sell their entire harvest regardless of the size, shape or superficial beauty of their produce. People understood that a small apple was as delicious as a large one, a misshapen carrot as nutrient-rich as any other.” The website for rival service Imperfect Produce, recently valued at $180 million, says: “Approximately 20% of organic and conventional produce in the U.S. never leaves the farm just because it looks a little different. . . . We think that’s crazy.”

Yet while the trend may have upsides for some farms and consumers, it’s nowhere near fixing food waste. That’s because advocates are getting the problem exactly backward. Less than 20 percent of total food waste happens at farms and packinghouses, where the ugly-produce movement works its magic, according to ReFED, a nonprofit dedicated to researching food waste policies. The vast majority of waste — more than 80 percent — is generated by homes and consumer-facing businesses like grocery stores and restaurants. “Rescuing” ugly produce is just one of the few, small slices of the food waste problem that are easily monetized by private entrepreneurs. The hype surrounding this movement is inflated by the public’s ignorance of the food supply chain.

Farms run on tight margins; they don’t casually waste their crops. When produce doesn’t make it off the farm, there’s a reason. Despite the dramatic anecdotes about truckloads of landfilled crops, little of farm waste is due to merely “cosmetic” blemishes. Much of it is bruised or weeping goods that can quickly break down and rot the entire crate. With many crops, misshapen produce knocks against its neighbors during transit, poking holes and jeopardizing entire bins. “Drops” (produce that’s fallen on the ground) are left behind because otherwise they tend to cause food-poisoning outbreaks. Farms till excessively damaged produce back into the soil along with the crop’s stems and leaves, recycling their nutrients. This approach keeps produce from being landfilled and doesn’t waste fossil fuels zooming product around in search of a buyer while it continues to deteriorate.

As for packinghouses — the other major culprit, according to ugly-produce proponents — they’re actually the smallest source of food waste in the entire supply chain. North America’s packinghouses discard about 1 percent of the produce that enters their doors, according to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization — usually because it’s straight-up rotten.

That number is consistent with my experiences working with packinghouses across the United States. The industry sorts produce into grades. Top-quality product goes to high-end grocery stores and pays the bills for the entire crop. Second-grade produce goes to food service, lower-end groceries, food banks — and, now, ugly-produce vendors. Severely misshapen and discolored product goes to processing to become juice, jam, baked goods, salsa, soups, guacamole or other foods. Packinghouses send culls (rotten goods that cannot be recovered by any means) to be tilled into nearby fields as fertilizer or, as a last resort, landfill them (though they avoid that whenever possible, because it costs money). In most packinghouses, the cull bins are small and few.

For the most part, ugly-produce initiatives are simply gentrifying second-grade produce that was already being eaten — just not, perhaps, by upscale shoppers. It’s the food equivalent of Lyft “inventing” a bus.

In truth, four times as much food is wasted at the fork — that is, at homes and consumer-facing businesses — than at the farm or packinghouse. The most effective ways to tackle that waste aren’t as marketable as a shiny new start-up, and they don’t get nearly as much publicity. They boil down to the old mantra to reduce, reuse and recycle.

The single biggest source of U.S. food waste, accounting for 43 percent of the problem, is our own homes. Reducing consumption will look different in every household; personally, I find that once produce goes in my crisper drawer, it might as well be in a black hole. For me, replacing some fresh veggies with frozen, and leaving fresh produce on the table as an easy snack, cut down my family’s food budget and trash volume. Others find meal prepping, and odds-and-ends recipes like stews and smoothies, to be helpful.

Most of all, we should sync our shopping habits with our eating habits. Affluent shoppers waste the most produce because of how much of it they buy and then trash, according to a 2018 U.S. Agriculture Department analysis. We throw out so much food at home that “saving” ugly produce from food service or processing could actually cause more waste. The most important behavioral change consumers can make to address food waste isn’t to buy certain kinds of produce. It’s to actually eat what we bring home.

Grocery stores, meanwhile, can get a lot of mileage out of reuse: donating food that’s past its “sell by” date, but still has a few good days left, to food banks. Many retailers already do this for the tax write-offs. But the infrastructure — donation matching software, cold storage and refrigerated trucks — to handle large donations of eggs, dairy, meat, bread and produce is still being built. Funding more food bank infrastructure, educating potential donors about liability laws, creating more donation tax incentives and standardizing food safety regulations would recover up to 996,000 tons of food, or 1.7 billion meals, per year, according to ReFED. Ugly produce maxes out around 266,000 tons of potential recovery per year — much of it just diverted away from processing, food service and food banks.

Homes, food service and grocery stores generate 7.8 million tons of food waste per year that can’t be salvaged, accounting for 12 percent of the problem. This waste needs to be recycled. The Environmental Protection Agency says that the United States composts only 5 percent of its food waste. (Compare that with 15 percent in the European Union.) That’s a lot of room for growth. Biochar — made by heating inedible food and other organic waste until it becomes inert, odorless, nutrient-rich charcoal — could be a very effective way to recycle food waste, but it’s underutilized, because the equipment to do it at municipal scale is so new. Like composting, biochar can be used as a fertilizer, returning food waste’s nutrients back to the soil. Unlike composting, it can handle food waste that’s mixed with general nonhazardous trash — no need for costly separate collection and handling. Biochar also sequesters carbon for centuries.

Some farms do profit from the ugly-produce movement: For now, at least, it helps them fetch higher prices for their seconds than they’d get from the processing market. But there are lots of other, better ways to attain higher returns on crops. Farms can form co-ops to increase volume and market power, as California’s citrus and avocado industries have, or process their own seconds. For certain crops like berries, tomatoes, leafy greens and cucumbers, farms can take advantage of state and federal funds that would help them switch from open-field to hoophouse or greenhouse methods. Already common in East Asia and Europe, these methods boost yields and dramatically reduce how much of the crop is too damaged to leave the farm. These active improvements are challenging and capital-intensive, but they’d do more to strengthen farms’ financial position than passively riding the ugly-food trend. Even if the movement grows, eventually the market will saturate or investors’ money could run out. Then, ugly-produce companies will be just more buyers racing to the bottom on price.

To be clear, ugly produce isn’t bad. If it works for your budget and routine, use it: Our distribution systems should make food affordable and accessible. But the movement’s narrative, built around tales of dented squash rotting in fields, distracts us from the data about the real sources of waste and how to address them. As long as we eat fresh food instead of shelf-stable nutrient bars, perishability is part of the bargain. The only way to completely eliminate food waste is to abolish fresh food. Beyond that, all we can do is manage the waste.

Consumers are forever being bombarded with claims that our individual buying choices can put a meaningful dent in some big problem. Food waste is one of the few areas where that’s true. But we won’t make much of a difference by acquiring a taste for hideous, gnarly cucumbers. We should just be sure that our shopping carts and grocery budgets aren’t bigger than our stomachs.

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This work reported a facile synthesis of porous carbons from the silica-rich rice husk biochar via a ball-milling-assisted KOH activation for sorption of tar compounds and volatile organic compounds (VOCs) (i.e., toluene, phenol). The textural properties of activated biochars can be greatly influenced by the mass ratio of KOH and biochar. The high-performance biochar with a large specific surface area (SBET: 1818 m2/g) was produced as the mass ratio was 3. This activated biochar exhibited a hierarchically meso-microporous structure, which benefited for the adsorption process. Particularly, it had long breakthrough time of 2784 min and high adsorption capacity of 264 mg/g for toluene, while it had short breakthrough time of 724 min and low adsorption capacity of 6.53 mg/g for phenol. Significantly, the mixed VOCs of toluene and phenol can be effectively adsorbed. Further, thermal desorption will be an alternative route for regeneration of waste activated biochar.

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The use of biochar to improve soil properties and decrease the leaching of nutrients has received attention, yet very little research has focused on its effects on Calcaric Cambisols. We evaluated the effect of rice (Oryza sativa L.) husk biochar at the highest pyrolysis temperatures of 450°C and 650°C (RH450 and RH650) on nutrient leaching, nutrient availability, and microbial properties of Calcaric Cambisols in the karst region of southwestern China. In a soil column leaching experiment, rice husk biochars produced under two temperatures were added at 1%, 2%, and 5% (weight/weight) to Calcaric Cambisols following application of fertilizer (ammonium nitrate [NH4NO3] and monopotassium phosphate [KH2PO4]) and incubated for 28 weeks. A control treatment (without rice husk biochar) was also included. After a 28-week incubation, both temperature rice husk biochars significantly reduced the cumulative amounts of ammonium (NH4+) in leachate from Calcaric Cambisols, while they increased cumulative amounts of leachate phosphate (PO43−) and potassium (K+). Addition of 2% and 5% RH650 significantly reduced cumulative amounts of leachate nitrate (NO3−), while RH450 amendment had no significant influence on NO3−-N leaching. Addition of 5% RH450 significantly increased soil available nitrogen (N) content simultaneously accompanied by a significant increase in microbial biomass N, suggesting net N mineralization was enhanced and soil microorganisms utilized a portion of mineral N for their own cell building. Both temperature rice husk biochar additions caused a significant increase in soil available phosphorus (P) and K. The highest P availability was observed in RH450-treated soil samples at 5% rate. Compared with RH450 treatment, higher K availability was found in RH650-treated soils. Both rice husk biochar additions significantly increased soil microbial biomass carbon (C), and RH450 addition also significantly increased soil microbial biomass P and soil fluorescein diacetate activity (FDA). This is largely due to the more labile C in RH450 (high oxygen [O]/C and hydrogen [H]/C ratios). The results suggest that high-temperature rice husk biochar amendment may be an effective strategy for reducing N leaching of Calcaric Cambisols, whereas low-temperature rice husk biochar has more beneficial effect on soil microbial biomass and microbial activity.

Bio-Char II: Production, Characterization and Applications

9 March, 2019

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Biochar is the carbon rich solid by-product of biomass pyrolysis. Interest in biochar can be broken down to several main categories: use as a carbon sequestration agent, use as a medium for the removal via adsorption of unwanted materials in wastewater, and as a soil amendment for the increase of cation exchange capacity (CEC). In order to generate a biochar which is stable enough for carbon sequestration, higher temperature pyrolysis must be used in order to ensure a lower O:C ratio in order to increase the half-life of biochar in soil. This dissertation addresses the evaluation of biochars made from pinewood, peanut, and bamboo biomass by pyrolysis over different temperatures (300, 400, and 500 °C), and by hydrothermal conversion (HTC) at 300 °C. Furthermore, this dissertation investigates different methods of partial oxygenation procedures to re-incorporate oxygen functional groups during post-production treatment of biochar samples through the use of either H2O2 or O3 treatments.

Biochars produced from pinewood, peanut and bamboo via pyrolysis were found to have lower CEC, higher pH, and lower O:C ratios when compared to biochars produced by HTC. Upon analysis it was found that a very strong correlation between O:C ratio and CEC exists, as illustrated by both elemental analysis and FTIR-ATR spectra. It was concluded, however, that while HTC produces a very high quality biochar in terms of CEC, there are predominant problems in using large scale HTC for producing biochars due to high cost of equipment and high pressures involved.

Biochar produced from pinewood biomass at 400 °C via pyrolysis was subjected to varying concentrations of H2O2 (1, 3, 10, 20, 30% w/w) or varying durations of O3 gas flow (30, 60, 90 mins). In both partial oxygenation treatments, the treated biochar exhibited a lowering of pH and increase in CEC, with slight changes in both FTIR-ATR spectra as well as elemental analysis. These results reveal that the aforementioned partial oxygenation procedures were effective in increasing CEC while keeping the inherent stability of the biochar stable by leaving the bulk of the biochar composition unchanged in terms of O:C ratio.

A green, cost-effective and sustainable route was proposed for production of nitrogen-doped porous biochar with sheet-shaped structure. Gelatin (G) served as carbon and nitrogen source, and sodium chloride (SC) functioned as not only the porogen but also the two-dimensional structure-directing template. Especially, the used SC salt can be easily recovered for reutilization, which eventually leads to a closed-loop process. Furthermore, the G/SC mass ratio of 1/30 and the carbonization temperature of 750 oC were demonstrated to be the optimal conditions for producing biochar which integrates advantages including abundant pore structure, high graphitization degree as well as the optimized doping of nitrogen species, and thus affords an enhanced charge storage capacity. This work takes a step towards green chemistry for the large-scale production of functional biochar, and the correlation of microstructure and surface chemistry with electrochemical performance provides valuable guidance for the design and configuration of functional carbon nanomaterials.

The article was accepted on 07 Mar 2019 and first published on 12 Mar 2019

In this study, biochar samples were prepared from the co-pyrolysis of sewage sludge (SS) and CaO to explore the transformation of P speciation in sample. The potential of these biochar as a fertilizer to promote the growth of the plant was also evaluated. The result indicated that CaO addition can greatly facilitate the conversion of non-apatite inorganic phosphorus (NAIP) to apatite inorganic phosphorus (AP, mainly Ca3(PO4)2 and Ca3Mg3(PO4)4). The addition of 10% CaO in feedstock is sufficient to convert SS inherent P into more bioavailable AP. Under such a dosage, AP content in biochar increased by 21.2–33.6% in contrast to CaO free sample at pyrolysis temperature of 500–800 °C, and water-soluble phosphorus (WSP) content decreased to less than 1% of TP. The addition of CaO can also apparently reduce Zn, Mn leaching from biochar. Additionally, hydroponics assay showed that CaO amended SS biochar can promote the growth of rice seedling. The results of this study indicate that preparing CaO amended SS biochar is a technically feasible strategy to utilize P resource in SS.

Oxidative ageing induces change in the functionality of biochar and hydrochar

The π-π EDA interactions play a dominant role in atrazine sorption by biochar.

Partitioning into the organic phase dominates atrazine sorption by hydrochar.

Atrazine sorption on hydrochar increased after ageing, while decreased on biochar.

One attraction of using hydrochar (HC) and biochar (BC) in soil is their intrinsic affinity for organic contaminants. Oxidative ageing is likely to induce changes in physicochemical properties and functionality. To explore the long-term potential trajectories for corn stalk HC and BC to adsorb organic pollutants, we employed HC and BC exposure in 5% H2O2 to simulate oxidative ageing and get insights into mechanisms of atrazine adsorption on fresh and artificially aged materials. The physicochemical properties of fresh and aged materials were systematically compared using elemental analysis, SSA, FTIR, XPS and SEM-EDS, alongside K2Cr2O7/H2SO4 treatment to assess chemical oxidation stability. Atrazine is a typical herbicide chemical and hydrophobic organic pollutant. Adsorption isotherms of atrazine were used to reveal differences in mechanisms of sorption to BC and HC, by assessment before and ageing. BC freshly produced at 650 °C displayed higher capacity for atrazine sorption than BC produced at 500 °C, with a dominant role for π-π EDA interactions. The sorption capacity of HC freshly produced at 250 °C was higher than for HC produced at 200 °C HC, owing to higher C content and atrazine partitioning into the organic phase. Ageing increased the surface abundance of oxygenated functional groups for BC and HC and diminished bulk aromaticity. After ageing, atrazine sorption by high temperature BC was lower, but for HC it was increased. Such divergent effects must be considered when developing strategies to co-manage contaminants and carbon through the addition of carbonized materials to land.

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The Research projects that the Biochar market size will grow from XX Million in 2017 to XX Million by 2023, at an estimated CAGR of XX %. The base year considered for the study is 2017, and the market size is projected from 2018 to 2023.Biochar is a charcoal which is obtained by heating different waste products such as wood waste, agricultural waste, animal manure and forest waste. These waste products are used as feedstock for production of biochar. Biochar is produced mainly through modern pyrolysis processes in which direct thermal decomposition of biomass waste in the absence of oxygen, resulting into biochar along with bio-oil and syngas. Biochar obtained is rich in carbon content and is fine grained residue. Biochar can also be obtained using different technologies such as gasification, microwave pyrolysis, etc.

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Research article Application of denitrifying bioreactors for the removal of atrazine in agricultural …

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Edge-of-field mitigation of atrazine and nitrate was investigated.

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Woodchip bioreactors simultaneously removed nitrate and atrazine.

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Biochar amendment increased atrazine removal.

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Nitrate and atrazine removal by the bioreactors followed first-order kinetic rates.

Edge-of-field mitigation of atrazine and nitrate was investigated.

Woodchip bioreactors simultaneously removed nitrate and atrazine.

Biochar amendment increased atrazine removal.

Nitrate and atrazine removal by the bioreactors followed first-order kinetic rates.

Atrazine and nitrate NO3-N are two agricultural pollutants that occur widely in surface and groundwater. One of the pathways by which these pollutants reach surface water is through subsurface drainage tile lines. Edge-of-field anaerobic denitrifying bioreactors apply organic substrates such as woodchips to stimulate the removal of NO3-N from the subsurface tile waters through denitrification. Here we investigated the co-removal of NO3−N and atrazine by these bioreactors. Laboratory experiments were conducted using 12-L woodchips-containing flow-through bioreactors, with and without the addition of biochar, to treat two concentrations of atrazine (20 and 50 μg L−1) and NO3−N (1.5 and 11.5 mg L−1), operated at four hydraulic retention time, HRT, (4 h, 8 h, 24 h, 72 h). Additionally, we examined the effect of aerating the bioreactors on atrazine removal. Furthermore, we tested atrazine removal by a field woodchip denitrifying bioreactor. The removal of both NO3−N and atrazine increased with increasing HRT in the laboratory bioreactors. At 4 h, the woodchip bioreactors removed 65% of NO3−N and 25% of atrazine but, at 72 h, the bioreactors eliminated all the NO3−N and 53% of atrazine. Biochar-amended bioreactors removed up to 90% of atrazine at 72-h retention time. We concluded that atrazine removal was primarily via adsorption because neither aeration nor NO3−N levels had an effect. At 4-h retention time, the field bioreactors achieved 2.5 times greater atrazine removal than the laboratory bioreactors. Our findings thus highlighted hydraulic retention time and biochar amendments as two important factors that may control the efficiency of atrazine removal by denitrifying bioreactors. In sum, laboratory and field data demonstrated that denitrifying bioreactors have the potential to decrease pesticide transport from agricultural lands to surface waters.

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My research in Dr. Stephanie MacQuarrie’s research lab consists of working with shrimp shells and waste. This involves the optimization of drying conditions (time & temperature), as well as the conversion of shrimp shells and waste into biochar (in collaboration with Dr. David Irwin using his pyrolysis unit here at CBU) for various applications. This includes converting significant shrimp waste into a viable, usable biochar that can be used in end market products including soap production, odor removal, waste water remediation through adsorption, or cosmetics. The biochar and its bi-products (bio-oil) produced from this locally abundant waste stream will be fully characterized by Infrared Spectroscopy (IR), Brunauer-Emmett-Teller (BET), Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM), Gas Chromatography (GC), and Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (NMR). They will also be analyzed for any contaminates (arsenic, lead or copper from the sea or holding tanks.) The conversion of this locally abundant waste stream into a viable resource will not only be beneficial to our local economy, but it also reduces our overall CO2 production by removing these materials from local landfills.

My research for Dr. Stephanie MacQuarrie has focused on the production and characterization of liquid smoke produced from the seaweed Ascophyllum nodosum, more commonly known as rockweed. Seaweed that undergoes pyrolysis yields a primary product known as biochar as well as 3 main by-products: gas, bio-oil, and water. The water layer contains volatiles from the seaweed which gives it unique characteristics. The smoky odor of the water layer has created interest in its application as a liquid smoke food additive. With the help of Dr. David Irwin, work has been conducted on the optimization of liquid smoke produced from pyrolysis with regards to energy consumption, yield and purity. The liquid smoke produced for each run has undergone chemical characterization including gas chromatography mass spectrometry (GCMS), nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (NMR), ultra performance liquid chromatography (UPLC), as well as the determination of water content and pH values. Batch-to-batch variability as well as compositional changes and stability of the liquid smoke were investigated using chemical analysis. Antimicrobial activity of the liquid smoke was also tested. This research could provide a method for turning an unused by-product into a marketable liquid smoke that would be unique in the food additive industry.

Biochar is fixed carbon that we produce from waste streams. To offset these waste streams, we hope to increase the range of applications for biochar. One way might be to add other materials to the biochar. Unfortunately, the surface of biochar is typically amorphous (without order). This poses a challenge when attempting to reliably add other compounds to its surface. By oxidizing the biochar, we should be able to generate a more consistent surface. From there, we can consistently bond functional materials to its surface.

Northsyde Prossing Ltd. harvests and sells over 5 million lbs of Snow Crab (Chionoecetes opilio) annually. Due to the increasing difficulty and cost of shell fish waste management, about 1/3 of this weight is sent to local landfills as waste, where it is left to decompose; this generates large amounts of CO2 emissions. The MacQuarrie Research Group is currently investigating methods to utilize this locally abundant waste stream and convert it into a viable material with a wide variety of environmentally and economically beneficial applications. Optimal drying and pyrolytic conditions for the conversion of crab waste into biochar and bio-oils have been obtained. The products (including biochars and bio-oils) have been fully characterized by Infrared Spectroscopy (IR), B-Emmett-Teller (BET), Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM), Gas Chromatography (GC), and Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (NMR). The highly basic biochar and bio-oils obtained from this process are currently being investigated for, but not limited to, possible applications in the neutralization of locally abundant acidic mine water run-off and acidic bio-oils.

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Let's Talk Trash: Thinking outside the pots

17 March, 2019

With fingers and green thumbs crossed, many gardeners are hoping spring may finally have sprung. Seeds are being sown indoors and out, and favourite varieties were scooped up at last weekend’s Seedy Saturday event at Powell River Recreation Complex. As we think about growing our greens, we can also incorporate doing it in a “greener” fashion.

Here are some seeds we want to plant in your mind, when it comes to alternatives for seeding trays and pots. Before buying new, scan your storage for used ones and ask friends, neighbours, and even nurseries, if they have excess of what you are looking for.

There are also a ton of creative ways to upcycle items from your recycling box into seed trays. How about making small, fully compostable paper pots out of folded newspaper or toilet paper rolls? Paper egg cartons work great for small seedlings, and their roots needn’t be disturbed, as you can transfer them directly into the soil.

Plastic recycling also comes in handy; there is finally a use for all those K-cups from your office. Larger seedlings can be transferred to self-watering systems made from bottles cut in half with the top half inverted. The only limit is your imagination.

Compost can be made at home and outcompete any store-bought fertilizers. Open-sourced plans are available for converting a freezer into a rodent-proof, hot composter (at letstalktrash.ca). Bokashi is a great indoor alternative, and systems can be created at home with old buckets and some thrifty uses of bacterially-rich food waste, such as rice water, kombucha mothers, and yogurt whey, or purchased as kits at Mother Nature.

Or, how about getting 1,000 pets to munch on your kitchen scraps? Worm bins are fun to create and maintain as a family. Get your worms from Carol Engram at 604.489.3176. If you want to go ultra simple, get ahold of a few pallets and make a three-sided box to collect yard waste and non-attractant kitchen scraps.

For the crafty, make biochar, an incredible soil amendment that resembles charcoal; it could be a great early spring project. And don’t forget that a liquid fertilizer can be made from combination of common “weeds” like dandelion, comfrey, along with kelp and animal manures or castings.

When composting at home, or elsewhere, remember to keep all plastics out of the soil, including food labels, biodegradable or compostable plastic bags and other products, unless you are planning on growing plastic veggies and flowers.

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If a greenhouse is on your list, choose upcycled building materials such as window frames, old glazed doors, old bricks, hay bales, or even glass or plastic bottles.

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18 March, 2019

Golf Course Industry is partnering with John Deere to provide an inside look at three unique tournament venues. As the part of the project, social media tours of each facility will be available @GCIMagazine and podcast interviews can be found at www.golfcourseindustry.com.

Tim Barger is the longest-tenured employee at a facility known for launching the modern tournament golf movement. On a damp, turned delightful morning 44 days before the 2019 PLAYERS Championship, the lore associated with longevity becomes apparent as Barger sits in a utility vehicle parked along the 17th hole and revisits TPC Sawgrass Stadium Course memories.

A Greensboro, N.C., native, the Navy brought Barger to north Florida in the 1970s. He later enrolled at Lake City Community College, a once robust supplier of turfgrass management talent to the booming Florida golf market. Details about the PGA Tour building a tournament-caliber course in a swamp in nearby Ponte Vedra Beach intrigued Barger and a few classmates. The Lake City contingent helped an eclectic team led by Pete Dye, Alice Dye, Dave Postlethwait, Alan MacCurrach Jr. and Vernon Kelly construct a golf course where only PGA Tour visionary Deane Beman and optimistic developers thought one should be built.

The crew averaged 68-hour weeks, working continuously through the spring, summer and fall of 1980. Walking the course shortly after it opened, Barger and a friend spotted the rarest of critters, a Florida panther, darting between the 16th green and the 17th tee. In his 39 years working at TPC Sawgrass, where he parlayed the construction opportunity into a golf course maintenance career, Barger has seen Michael Jordan, Lawrence Taylor, Gene Hackman, Larry Bird, Kenny Rogers, Gerald Ford and George H.W. Bush, along with every elite pro golfer of the last 40 years, enjoying the same spot as the panther.

More startling than the celebrities, champions, crafters and critters are the changes within Barger’s own department. When the Stadium Course opened in 1980, the entire TPC Sawgrass crew could “fit around a picnic table,” he says. The Stadium Course has gone from being reviled to rejoiced and another layout, Dye’s Valley, was added seven years later. Barger now has more than 80 co-workers. Director of golf course operations Jeff Plotts and top assistant Lucas Andrews stage pre-tournament motivational staff meetings in a hospitality tent behind the 17th green, one of several massive structures surrounding the photogenic and perplexing hole. Close to 100 agronomy volunteers representing 17 countries converge in north Florida this month to assist one of the most scientific and data-driven operations in turf.

Crew members and PLAYERS Championship volunteers conduct tournament week meetings in a large tent behind a majestic agronomy center built as part of a $50 million renovation completed in 2017. The tent is adjacent to a research nursery akin to something found at a land-grant institution. Everything about TPC Sawgrass has become bigger than Barger, Beman or the sunniest of Florida’s land development optimists imagined.

TPC Sawgrass boasts a sizable economy of its own within the $9 billion golf maintenance industry – and it’s positioned for continued growth. The scope and splendor of the operation enthralls anybody interested in high-level agronomy.

“I don’t know what it’s like behind the scenes at Disneyland,” says PGA Tour senior vice president of agronomy Paul Vermeulen, whose department oversees the maintenance of TPC Sawgrass. “I’m sure it’s impressive. We call this our Disneyland just because it’s so impressive and so far-reaching.”

Plotts and his team maintain a pair of golf courses next to the current – and future – PGA Tour headquarters. Beman still lives in the area and frequently plays the Stadium Course. Imagine former Disney CEO Michael Eisner dropping by Disneyland to ride Space Mountain.

The PGA Tour owns and operates TPC Sawgrass, and an 80-year-old who halted a successful playing career in 1974 to become an administrator still motivates, inspires and challenges the agronomy team; Beman’s presence and legacy overshadows all others at TPC Sawgrass.

“Even to this day, when he comes out and plays, his expectation is for it to be higher and bigger,” Plotts says. “Lucas and I are always asking: Is that gold standard? Is that PLAYERS standard? Is that worthy of TPC?”

Something as seemingly repetitious as dispersing seed receives constant scrutiny. Preparing for The PLAYERS Championship’s return to March required overseeding more than 200 Stadium Course acres for the first time since the 2006 PLAYERS Championship. Only three members of the crew had experienced an overseed at TPC Sawgrass. Only a few more had experienced an overseed anywhere.

A veteran of the process from his TPC Scottsdale days, Plotts understood the tactics and patience associated with overseeding. His vision involved being “really good” this cycle, becoming even better next cycle and developing an “exceptional” overseed in three to five years. The defined vision helped train a staff to execute individualized tasks such as pushing a drop spreader over a green to create straight lines without overlap.

“We are getting there through brute force this year and we’re looking forward to bringing some finesse to our execution next year,” Andrews says. “The one thing I did learn about overseed is that it does not allow you to have any weakness in your game. You have to prep it perfectly, then you have to apply it perfectly, then you have to water it in perfectly.”

Overseeding has sparked changes in mowing practices – and more training. To prepare fairways blended with ryegrass and fine fescue for tournament striping, managers started painting directional lines on surfaces in early winter. When Bermudagrass covered fairways, TPC Sawgrass had two feasible mowing options: a one-directional or 50-50 cut. Neither cut requires the same precision as striping. “Now everything we mow has a purpose,” Plotts says.

There’s no shortage of equipment available to mow the Stadium Course and Dye’s Valley turf. Like Barger, equipment manager Mark Sanford has observed the enormous transformation over the last three decades. His TPC Sawgrass tenure started in 1983, and he recalls working long hours to extend the effectiveness of every mower. “I couldn’t talk to the superintendent about getting new equipment unless it was five years old,” he says.

Higher stakes requiring lower cuts resulted in an increase in equipment and support. The 1983 PLAYERS Championship featured a $700,000 purse, with winner Hal Sutton receiving $126,000. The totals for 2019 swelled to $12.5 million and beyond $2 million, respectively.

The tournament staff mowed greens at .125 inches in the 1980s. Greens are now mowed at lower heights for resort play, Sanford says.

Sanford oversees a six-person staff responsible for maintaining more than 500 pieces of riding, walking and handheld equipment. Besides the nearly six-dozen walking greens mowers, TPC Sawgrass also deploys 11 2500E E-Cut triplexes, nine 7500A fairway mowers, five 2653B trim and surrounds mowers, and 52 Gators. The size of the fleet has increased by “six or seven times” since 1983, Sanford says. The new agronomy center tripled the size of shop space, Sanford adds. Once viewed as gluttonous for a 36-hole facility, the building storing Gators and riding mowers is approaching capacity. “When we were building this building, nobody thought we would have enough equipment to put in here,” Plotts says. “This building is huge. It’s silly big. But we are almost at capacity. If we get something new, we will find space for it.”

Equipment deliveries are common. TPC Sawgrass operates on a three-year lease, with John Deere dealer Beard Equipment dispatching a mobile technician multiple times per week to assist Sanford’s team. John Deere innovations are tested at TPC Sawgrass because of the spacious turf plots. The nursery also provides space to study emerging turfgrass varieties, including zoysiagrass at tournament-level green heights. In addition to the two courses, the agronomy team maintains professional and resort practices areas, turf and landscaping surrounding the clubhouse, and a revamped entryway. Hundreds of PGA Tour employees roam the grounds every day.

“I never thought it would evolve into what it is today,” Sanford says. “I remember going to Christmas parties in the clubhouse, and there were 100 of us between the PGA Tour and TPC Network. I used to know just about everyone who worked for the Tour.” The number of managers on the agronomy team, Sanford adds, is comparable to the size of the crew when he arrived in 1983.

So, you want to work there …

What type of mentality does it take for an industry professional to succeed at TPC Sawgrass? Senior vice president of agronomy Paul Vermeulen says the PGA Tour seeks team-first managers when filling TPC Sawgrass openings.

“We are not looking for franchise players,” he says. “What is being accomplished here at TPC Sawgrass is so big that it takes everyone contributing equally on the team. If we have singular franchise players that do well, but we have others on the team that don’t perform equally, then we can’t achieve what we are wanting to present to the world during the PLAYERS Championship. We’re trying to find the individuals that want to learn and fit into a team doing the task at hand. That’s not to say the top graduates at one of the leading universities is not of interest. But that individual wouldn’t be of interest if they don’t have a team-oriented perspective.”

Clip it and record it

Speed, firmness and moisture readings are key data points collected at PGA Tour sites. TPC Sawgrass obtains additional data by measuring clipping volume on greens. After mowing a green, an operator empties clippings into a bucket and records the volume. An assistant superintendent gathers the data from operators and inputs daily readings into a spreadsheet. TPC Sawgrass has monitored clipping volume for the past three years.

The information allows the agronomy team and PGA Tour officials to more precisely predict how a green is going to mature throughout the day and reaffirms the effectiveness of plant growth regulator applications, Vermeulen says.

Measuring clipping yield comes at little labor cost to the crew. “Some people might think it’s a little bit overkill,” director of golf course operations Jeff Plotts says. “But it gives us a good cross-section of what’s going on every day. Somebody has to empty the basket anyway, so they might as well empty it into the bucket and give us an idea of what we are seeing.”

Marching to an enhanced appearance

Shifting the PLAYERS Championship from May to March allows TPC Sawgrass to return to overseeding, a practice it abandoned because of a May tournament date from 2006-18.

“I still think overseeding has a place in the golf industry in the Southeast,” director of golf course operations Jeff Plotts says. “I think it’s beautiful. I think people like it. It causes some challenges, but that’s what we are supposed to do – try to manage that.”

Drone footage recorded earlier this year dazzled a staff accustomed to bermudagrass. “This is a beautiful facility and overseeding has dramatically changed the appearance of it,” Plotts says.

Plotts, a TPC Network veteran who shifted from Scottsdale to Sawgrass in August 2015, nine months before the renovation commenced, acts as the liaison between the agronomy department and PGA Tour players and officials. The position demands melding compassion and compromise with advanced agronomics. Asked how he appeases numerous high-achieving personalities, Plotts says, “You put everything 1A.”

Although he frequently observes activities on the courses, Plotts describes his philosophy as a “divide and conquer” management style. He’s the long-term thinker within a department executing a bevy of daily tasks. Following last fall’s overseed, for example, Plotts shifted his attention to this year’s process, which begins in October. Plotts participates in dozens of formal meetings, but the most productive gatherings are impromptu conversations with his staff.

“We need people to communicate,” he says. “When you get into a formal setting, I have found the younger guys get quiet. They don’t communicate or share ideas. But if you’re in an informal setting, they are really quick with popping out ideas and thoughts. That is invaluable and makes us better.”

Plotts speaks with Andrews more than anybody else on the team. They occupy adjacent offices inside an administrative area featuring computers, copiers, scanners, Stadium Course canvases, motivational boards (the phrase “No whining” hangs above Plotts’ door), dry erase calendars with detailed plans and Wall Street-like conference room. Andrews, an Englishman who interned at TPC Sawgrass as University of Guelph student, joined the full-time staff in 2010, advancing from an assistant-in-training to assistant director of golf course operations in less than a decade.

Andrews, Plotts says, must be focused on the “now,” which means knowing every yard of the Stadium Course. Andrews sometimes parks his cart near a restroom behind the 16th tee and walks the final three holes. The walks allow him to seek input from employees while scouting for ways to enhance the closing stretch.

“Our habitat is out on the golf course,” Andrews says. “The staff’s creative juices are flowing out there. They are seeing things. They are adapting as they go through the morning and the rest of their day. If you can catch them in that moment when their creative juices are flowing, that’s when you get best input.”

Elliott and Wheeler, Plotts says, are responsible for leading “day-to-day” efforts on both courses. Elliott, who previously worked at TPC Boston, finds himself mesmerized by the resources available at TPC Sawgrass, especially the size on the crew. “The amount of stuff we can get done in a day or two here is insane,” he says.

While the management team has stabilized in the last few years, status doesn’t shield TPC Sawgrass from the hiring and retention challenges within the golf industry. And because the property features nuances as such as severe mounding and bulkheads, the training investment is huge. “There are not a lot of things here where you can just send somebody out and they can do it,” Elliott says. “That’s difficult as a manager. It requires a lot of management and guidance.”

The scrutiny brings pressure and opportunity. Wheeler, a veteran of the South Florida private club scene who became the Dye’s Valley superintendent last year, stares at the logo when comparing working at TPC Sawgrass to other facilities.

“It’s the flagship of the Tour,” he says. “Anywhere you look, whether it’s merchandising or advertising, you’re front and center. You’re part of something bigger. But it’s still a golf course. If you can compartmentalize, you realize you’re trying to accomplish the same thing as everybody else. It’s just a different scope.”

So, the TPC Sawgrass team pushes forward, awaiting the next audacious move of bosses preparing to relocate into the PGA Tour’s new “global” headquarters. Whatever executives and players decide, it will be backed by significant agronomic brainpower and horsepower. Innovation associated with the PGA Tour’s growth, though, will never supplant memories created through decades of working atop a north Florida swamp.

“I would like to know how many people have come through here,” Barger says. “I should have counted that and how many greens I have mowed since I have been here. Those are the two numbers I would like to know. It’s been fun. There have been a lot of characters come through here.”

Biowaste-based biochar

18 March, 2019

This work explores the potential use of biochar as a microbial cell carrier enhancing the efficiency of alcoholic fermentations. Olive kernels, vineyard prunings, sewage sludge and seagrass residues were applied as biowaste for biochar production through pyrolysis at two different temperatures (250 °C and 500 °C), while a commercial type of non-biomass char was also employed for benchmarking purposes. Apart from vineyard prunings pyrolyzed at 250 °C, all other carbonaceous materials presented crystalline phases including halite, calcite, sylvite and/or silicon. Moreover, increase in pyrolysis temperature enhanced biochar’s porosity and BET-specific surface area, which reached 41.7 m2 g−1 for VP-based biochar remaining at lower levels (0.15–5.3 m2 g−1) in other specimens tested. Elemental analysis demonstrated reduction in oxygen and increase in the carbon content of biochars produced at elevated temperatures, while biochar from seagrass included residues of chloride (0.3–5.14%). Three major yeasts were immobilized on materials exhibiting the highest surface areas and applied in repeated batch fermentations using Valencia orange peel hydrolyzates as feedstock. The biocatalysts developed using S. cerevisiae and K. marxianus immobilized on vineyard prunings-based biochar exhibited exceptional ethanol productivities as compared to the relevant literature, which reached 7.2 g L−1 h−1 and 7.3 g L−1 h−1 respectively. Although the aforementioned strains improved biofuel production by 36–52% compared to the conventional process, P. kudriavzevii KVMP10 was not efficient following immobilization on biochar. The approach constitutes an innovative method for bioenergy production, demonstrating a novel application of biochar in industrial biotechnology which incorporates important technological advances such as enhanced biofuel production and biomass recycling.

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Facile and low-cost fabrication of ZnO/biochar nanocomposites from jute fibers for efficient and …

18 March, 2019

The present work demonstrates the fabrication of ZnO loaded on biomass porous carbon through pyrolysis of jute fibers pretreated by Zn(OAc)2. XRD, Raman SEM, TEM, XPS and physical adsorption of nitrogen were used to characterize the products. Dark adsorption and photocatalytic degradation of methylene blue (MB) was run to evaluate their activities for removal of organic pollutants. It was demonstrated that the composition and structure of ZnO/JFC composites depended on the ratios of jute fibers to zinc salt. Through adjusting the mass ratio between raw materials, a fine composite of ZnO monocrystalline nanorods embedded on the porous carbon walls was obtained, which exhibited a much better efficiency for MB decolorization. The removal of MB was found to be pH dependent, and the optimized removal efficiency reached to 99% and the mineralization level was over 93% at pH 7.0 following 30 min under UV illumination. The kinetic studies showed the decolorization of MB followed pseudo first-order kinetics, and the rate constants were determined using the Langmuir–Hinshelwood model, indicating KLH = 0.024 L∙mg−1and kc = 4.01 mg∙L−1 min−1. Moreover, the ZnO nanorods/JFC composite was stable and showed a high efficiency of over 80% during seven cycles of utilization and regeneration. Examination for the real sample contaminated by MB proved that the presence of metal ions and other organic pollutants hardly affected its photocatalytic ability. It was demonstrated that ZnO/JFC composites could be fabricated through simultaneous pyrolysis of jute fibers and zinc acetate. These composites were provided with the advantages of high photocatalytic efficiency, convenient recycling and long-term stability, and were expected to be applied in environmental engineering and manufacturing for organic dyes removal.

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CQUni working with world leader to turn trash into treasure

SOME look at a pile of waste and see a problem. Others see an opportunity to produce value-added products such as heat, power and biofuels.

CQUniversity hopes to convert more of the former into the latter.

CQUniversity Associate Professor Nanjappa Ashwath spent seven months in Professor Capareda's laboratory in the USA and was able to carry out a range of experiments in the field of biofuels.

"Now Professor Capareda is visiting us on three months' sabbatical leave and he has discussed with regional councils a waste oil to biofuel producer and a local cotton gin corporation, giving us his view of how and what to do with the waste materials,” Associate Professor Ashwath says.

"Our visitor has travelled around Queensland, has seen the waste issues that Queensland and Australia are currently addressing.

While based at CQUniversity's Central Queensland Innovation and Research Precinct (CQIRP), in North Rockhampton, Professor Capareda has been focused on Clean Energy Technologies within the Centre for Intelligent Systems.

The visitor is working with Associate Professor Ashwath as well as Professor Masud Khan and Associate Professor Mohammad Rasul.

CQUniversity is in discussions with a range of industries seeking their participation in a research project to develop a mobile bioenergy unit to service Central Queensland.

"With this mobile gasification unit, we could travel to places where waste resources are located, and demonstrate how well we can convert different types of wastes into value-added products such as biofuels and chemicals that can be used as soil conditioners (biochar and bioliquor) and as a precursor for chemical manufacturing (bioliquor, biochar),” Associate Professor Ashwath said.

"Some of the products can also be used in fuel cells which could have a huge demand in the future.

"Professor Capareda has also agreed to co-supervise our post graduate students who are working on beauty leaf tree and biofuel feedstocks.

"CQUni is currently working on establishing a Memorandum of Understanding with Texas A&M University to further this research collaboration.”

Professor Capareda is the author of the leading textbook, an Introduction to Biomass Energy Conversions, published by CRC Press.

This technical guide prepares students for managing bio-refineries, no matter what type of biofuel is produced. It also provides practicing engineers with a resource for starting a small biofuel business.

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These state-of-the art fluidised bed facilities can generate heat and electrical power under carefully controlled use of an oxidant (gasification mode).

Combustible gas, liquid biooil and biochar are the major co-products, if operated in the pyrolysis mode (no oxygen) and using inert gas for fluidisation.

Several companies in the US have licensed this technology for conversion of various wastes (e.g. municipal solid waste, wood wastes, biosolids, and poultry litter) into heat and electrical power with biochar and bio-oil as major by-products.

The visiting professor showcased his research processes and simple economic cost-benefit analysis which helped a city council in the USA convert municipal solid waste into syngas for power generation.

The alternative was to have the trash emitting greenhouse gases.

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"They were happy and I helped them build a facility that generated a megawatt of power from 1.5 tonnes of waste feed per hour.

"Once the gas is generated, we clean it properly and inject it into an engine that generates one megawatt of power continuously.”

CQUni's School of Graduate Research has also recently announced a Clean Energy Research Higher Degree Academy, which will support research higher degree activities in this thematic area.

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20 March, 2019

For one, biochar is typically produced in small, low-efficiency reactors without proper emissions control (though this is solvable). The bigger issue is the high energy content of biochar (~30MJ/kg). Simply burying all of this energy isn't economical – it makes much more sense to store carbon in its oxidized state, and sell the energy that's released in the process (in various forms – we're starting with Hydrogen).

The latest research seems to show that done properly, biochar can improve crop yields substantially, so that could be a way to pay for the process, but the other aspect is that it can be produced in a very low-tech manner, which is almost certainly the situation in many or most parts of the world.

How are you planning 'geological carbon dioxide sequestration'? I'm not sure of the chemistry/process, but is burning the charcoal completely actually necessary to produce hydrogen? It seems not, to me. The cynical view of course is that you will omit the costly sequestration step, which makes this just another biofuel endeavor, with the attendant pros, and, mainly (IMHO), cons…

Biochar-Supported nZVI (nZVI/BC) for Contaminant Removal from Soil and Water

20 March, 2019

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Aggregation and passivation of nZVI can be alleviated by surfactants and doping methods

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BC hinders corrosion and improves the dispersion and electron transfer of nZVI

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Properties of nZVI depend on those of the BC, feedstock and pyrogenic temperature

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BC enhances electron transfer from nZVI to the contaminants due to the presence of quinone and graphene moieties

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nZVI/BC shows strong ability to remove HMs, nitrates, and organic contaminants in soil and water

Aggregation and passivation of nZVI can be alleviated by surfactants and doping methods

BC hinders corrosion and improves the dispersion and electron transfer of nZVI

Properties of nZVI depend on those of the BC, feedstock and pyrogenic temperature

BC enhances electron transfer from nZVI to the contaminants due to the presence of quinone and graphene moieties

nZVI/BC shows strong ability to remove HMs, nitrates, and organic contaminants in soil and water

The promising characteristics of nanoscale zero-valent iron (nZVI) have not been fully exploited owing to intrinsic limitations. Carbon-enriched biochar (BC) has been widely used to overcome the limitations of nZVI and improve its reaction with environmental pollutants. This work reviews the preparation of nZVI/BC nanocomposites; the effects of BC as a supporting matrix on the nZVI crystallite size, dispersion, and oxidation and electron transfer capacity; and its interaction mechanisms with contaminants. The literature review suggests that the properties and preparation conditions of BC (e.g., pore structure, functional groups, feedstock composition, and pyrogenic temperature) play important roles in the manipulation of nZVI properties. This review discusses the interactions of nZVI/BC composites with heavy metals, nitrates, and organic compounds in soil and water. Overall, BC contributes to the removal of contaminants because it can attenuate contaminants on the surface of nZVI/BC; it also enhances electron transfer from nZVI to target contaminants owing to its good electrical conductivity and improves the crystallite size and dispersion of nZVI. This review is intended to provide insights into methods of optimizing nZVI/BC synthesis and maximizing the efficiency of nZVI in environmental cleanup.

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Interactive effects of rice straw biochar and γ-Al2O3 on immobilization of Zn

20 March, 2019

Biochar system technology has been proved as a sustainable remediation method for metal contaminated soils. However, little attention has been paid to the interaction between biochar and oxide minerals and their influence on metal immobilization in soils. In this study, batch-type Zn sorption experiments were conducted using the mixture of γ-Al2O3 and rice straw biochar as a model binary geosorbent systems. In addition, advanced spectroscopic technics such as EXAFS, FTIR and XRD were performed to reveal the mechanism. EXAFS spectroscopy revealed that 62% of Zn existed as Zn-Al layered double hydroxide (LDH) on γ-Al2O3 at pH 7.5 (for 2 mM Zn loading) within 24 h, which was 19% in the mixture. The Zn in biochar samples mainly existed as Zn-OM (53%-76%) and Zn2SiO4 (21%-47%), while the proportion of Zn2SiO4 (0-6%) was negligible compared with Zn-Al silicate (26-48%) in the mixtures. The overall findings confirmed that Al released from γ-Al2O3 was sorbed in parallel with Zn on biochar to form Zn-Al silicate, rather than Zn-Al LDH on the γ-Al2O3 surface. These results unveiled the dynamic interactions between amended biochar and soil oxide minerals which can significantly affect the immobilization pathways of metals in contaminated soils.